Nweche Surname
Approximately 81 people bear this surname
Nweche Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 80 | 1:2,214,284 | 75,532 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Nweche Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nweche Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nweche is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nweche? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,091,648th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 89,969,703 people. The last name Nweche occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nweche reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Nweche is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 80 people, or 1 in 2,214,284. In Nigeria Nweche is most frequent in: Cross River, where 46 percent reside, Ebonyi, where 19 percent reside and Enugu, where 13 percent reside. Not including Nigeria this surname is found in one country. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Nweche
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