Tekah Surname
Approximately 75 people bear this surname
Tekah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 31 | 1:669,970 | 49,334 |
| Liberia | 11 | 1:400,776 | 20,681 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4 | 1:340,994 | 12,383 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Tekah (194) may also be a first name.
Tekah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tekah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tekah occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Tekah.
How Common Is The Last Name Tekah? popularity and diffusion
Tekah is the 2,185,341st most numerous last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 97,167,279 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 67 percent of Tekah reside; 41 percent reside in Central Africa and 41 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Tekah is also the 651,944th most commonly held first name on earth. It is borne by 194 people.
It is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 31 people, or 1 in 669,970. In Cameroon Tekah is primarily found in: Northwest Region, where 48 percent are found, Southwest Region, where 48 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 3 percent are found. Not including Cameroon this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 15 percent are found and Indonesia, where 13 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 Tekah
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