Pekeleke Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Pekeleke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 43 | 1:483,002 | 39,429 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Pekeleke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pekeleke Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pekeleke is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pekeleke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pekeleke is the 2,944,094th most commonly used last name on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 165,626,044 people. The surname Pekeleke occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Pekeleke reside; 98 percent reside in Central Africa and 98 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 43 people, or 1 in 483,002. In Cameroon Pekeleke is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 56 percent reside, Southwest Region, where 35 percent reside and Northwest Region, where 5 percent reside. Not including Cameroon this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in England, where 2 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
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pekeleke
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