Kikpoye Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Kikpoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 57 | 1:3,107,768 | 95,628 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kikpoye (97) may also be a first name.
Kikpoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kikpoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kikpoye is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kikpoye.
How Common Is The Last Name Kikpoye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,530,696th most commonly held family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kikpoye live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kikpoye is also the 962,660th most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 97 people.
The surname Kikpoye is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 57 people, or 1 in 3,107,768. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Rivers, where 95 percent live, Lagos, where 4 percent live and Kaduna, where 2 percent live. Barring Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 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
- 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 Kikpoye
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