Wekere Surname
Approximately 227 people bear this surname
Wekere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 191 | 1:927,449 | 39,947 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wekere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wekere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wekere is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Wekere click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wekere? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,085,744th most frequently used surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 32,103,727 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 88 percent of Wekere live; 85 percent live in West Africa and 84 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Wekere is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 191 people, or 1 in 927,449. In Nigeria it is most common in: Rivers, where 94 percent reside, Sokoto, where 3 percent reside and Abia, where 1 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent reside and Cameroon, 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 Wekere
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