Nwanekpe Surname
Approximately 104 people bear this surname
Nwanekpe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 98 | 1:1,807,579 | 65,389 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Nwanekpe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwanekpe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nwanekpe is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nwanekpe.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwanekpe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nwanekpe is the 1,806,862nd most prevalent surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 70,072,557 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Nwanekpe reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is carried by 98 people, or 1 in 1,807,579. In Nigeria Nwanekpe is mostly concentrated in: Rivers, where 26 percent live, Lagos, where 23 percent live and Enugu, where 15 percent live. Not including Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 5 percent live and England, where 1 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
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