Nwegbu Surname
Approximately 389 people bear this surname
Nwegbu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 363 | 1:487,997 | 24,474 |
| England | 24 | 1:2,321,586 | 86,519 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Nwegbu (15) may also be a first name.
Nwegbu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwegbu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nwegbu is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Nwegbu.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwegbu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nwegbu is the 741,235th most prevalent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 18,734,051 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Nwegbu reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,900,335th most prevalent given name worldwide, held by 15 people.
Nwegbu is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 363 people, or 1 in 487,997. In Nigeria Nwegbu is mostly found in: Enugu, where 23 percent are found, Lagos, where 15 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 14 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria Nwegbu exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 6 percent are found and The United States, where 1 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 Nwegbu
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