Zikiru Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Zikiru Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 39 | 1:4,542,122 | 122,724 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
Zikiru (161) may also be a first name.
Zikiru Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zikiru Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zikiru is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zikiru? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,055,934th most frequently used last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 177,745,022 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Zikiru are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Zikiru is also the 722,635th most frequently held forename world-wide, borne by 161 people.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 4,542,122. In Nigeria Zikiru is most frequent in: Kano, where 23 percent live, Kaduna, where 21 percent live and Sokoto, where 13 percent live. Beside Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 5 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 Zikiru
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