Obikeze Surname
Approximately 120 people bear this surname
Obikeze Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 115 | 1:1,540,372 | 58,295 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
Obikeze Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obikeze Come From? nationality or country of origin
Obikeze is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Obikeze? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,658,108th most commonly occurring family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 60,729,549 people. The last name Obikeze occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Obikeze are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 115 people, or 1 in 1,540,372. In Nigeria it is most common in: Lagos, where 25 percent reside, Delta, where 14 percent reside and Oyo, where 14 percent reside. Barring Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in South Africa, where 4 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 Obikeze
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