Ijekwe Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Ijekwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
Ijekwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ijekwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ijekwe is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Ijekwe.
How Common Is The Last Name Ijekwe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,909,720th most frequently held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 161,945,465 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ijekwe live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Ijekwe is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 4,025,972. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Ebonyi, where 30 percent reside, Rivers, where 25 percent reside and Enugu, where 23 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in one country. It is also common in Israel, where 2 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ijekwe
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