Nwakaeme Surname
Approximately 60 people bear this surname
Nwakaeme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 58 | 1:3,054,185 | 94,504 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nwakaeme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwakaeme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nwakaeme is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwakaeme? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nwakaeme is the 2,483,783rd most commonly occurring last name globally, borne by around 1 in 121,459,099 people. The last name Nwakaeme occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nwakaeme reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 58 people, or 1 in 3,054,185. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Lagos, where 69 percent live, Benue, where 12 percent live and Akwa Ibom, where 7 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Gambia, where 2 percent live and 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
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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 Nwakaeme
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