Irukwu Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Irukwu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 99 | 1:1,789,321 | 64,938 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Irukwu (11) may also be a first name.
Irukwu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Irukwu Come From? nationality or country of origin
Irukwu is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Irukwu? popularity and diffusion
The surname Irukwu is the 1,701,480th most commonly used last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Irukwu reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Irukwu is also the 3,487,849th most numerous first name throughout the world, held by 11 people.
Irukwu is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 99 people, or 1 in 1,789,321. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Abia, where 42 percent live, Lagos, where 23 percent live and Enugu, where 10 percent live. Outside of Nigeria it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 8 percent live and England, where 5 percent live.
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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
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- 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 Irukwu
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