Nwaekpe Surname
Approximately 438 people bear this surname
Nwaekpe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 429 | 1:412,920 | 21,515 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nwaekpe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwaekpe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nwaekpe occurs most in Nigeria. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Nwaekpe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwaekpe? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 679,794th most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 16,638,233 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nwaekpe are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 429 people, or 1 in 412,920. In Nigeria it is most common in: Abia, where 61 percent are found, Rivers, where 13 percent are found and Lagos, where 10 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent are found and Germany, where 0 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
- 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 Nwaekpe
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