Ugwueje Surname
Approximately 415 people bear this surname
Ugwueje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 414 | 1:427,881 | 22,121 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ugwueje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ugwueje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ugwueje occurs most in Nigeria. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Ugwueje.
How Common Is The Last Name Ugwueje? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 707,442nd most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 17,560,352 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ugwueje reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 414 people, or 1 in 427,881. In Nigeria Ugwueje is primarily found in: Enugu, where 47 percent live, Abia, where 32 percent live and Lagos, where 5 percent live. Not including Nigeria it is found in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 0 percent live.
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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 Ugwueje
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