Nyamekye Surname
Approximately 18,389 people bear this surname
Nyamekye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 18,011 | 1:1,500 | 246 |
| United States | 173 | 1:2,095,138 | 133,172 |
| England | 123 | 1:452,992 | 29,924 |
| Canada | 17 | 1:2,167,388 | 133,872 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:1,338,454 | 35,497 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Nyamekye (2,311) may also be a first name.
Nyamekye Demographics
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Nyamekye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyamekye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nyamekye is more commonly found in Ghana than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyamekye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 29,192nd most commonly used surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 396,299 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nyamekye live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 154,937th most commonly occurring forename internationally It is held by 2,311 people.
The surname Nyamekye is most frequently occurring in Ghana, where it is held by 18,011 people, or 1 in 1,500. Barring Ghana it is found in 25 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
Nyamekye Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Nyamekye surname are 39.08% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 92.31% registered with the party.
The amount Nyamekye earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 63.23% less than the national average, earning R 87,384 per year; in United States they earn 4.36% less than the national average, earning $41,266 USD per year and in Canada they earn 33.22% less than the national average, earning $33,176 CAD per year.
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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 Nyamekye
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