Iweanya Surname

579,404th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 542 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Iweanya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Iweanya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria5221:339,35418,436
Belgium131:884,35769,774
England41:13,929,515290,718
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Poland11:38,008,749231,653

Iweanya (178) may also be a first name.

Iweanya Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Iweanya Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Iweanya is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Iweanya.

How Common Is The Last Name Iweanya? popularity and diffusion

The surname Iweanya is the 579,404th most prevalent family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 13,445,657 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Iweanya reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 683,417th most widespread first name worldwide It is held by 178 people.

The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 522 people, or 1 in 339,354. In Nigeria Iweanya is most prevalent in: Delta, where 22 percent are found, Lagos, where 15 percent are found and Enugu, where 15 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 2 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.

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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 Iweanya
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