Akinwola Surname

785,023rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 360 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Iceland

Akinwola Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Akinwola Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3511:504,68025,124
Benin71:1,476,51557,381
England11:55,718,059489,080
Iceland11:380,09011,096

Akinwola (37) may also be a first name.

Akinwola Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Akinwola Come From? nationality or country of origin

Akinwola is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Akinwola.

How Common Is The Last Name Akinwola? popularity and diffusion

Akinwola is the 785,023rd most commonly used surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 20,243,183 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Akinwola live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Akinwola is also the 1,688,769th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 37 people.

Akinwola is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 351 people, or 1 in 504,680. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Osun, where 35 percent live, Lagos, where 27 percent live and Ogun, where 16 percent live. Other than Nigeria Akinwola occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 2 percent live and England, 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
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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 Akinwola
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