Echegi Surname
Approximately 231 people bear this surname
Echegi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 227 | 1:780,365 | 35,035 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
Echegi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Echegi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Echegi is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Echegi? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,073,555th most frequently used last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 31,547,818 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Echegi reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Echegi is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 227 people, or 1 in 780,365. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Kogi, where 28 percent reside, Enugu, where 23 percent reside and Abia, where 7 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria Echegi occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Belize, where 0 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
- 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 Echegi
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