Anowe Surname
Approximately 266 people bear this surname
Anowe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 191 | 1:927,449 | 39,947 |
| Congo | 59 | 1:84,561 | 7,183 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Anowe (26) may also be a first name.
Anowe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Anowe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Anowe is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Anowe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 973,426th most prevalent last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 27,396,789 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Anowe live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 72 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,084,397th most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 26 people.
The last name Anowe is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 191 people, or 1 in 927,449. In Nigeria Anowe is most frequent in: Delta, where 39 percent reside, Enugu, where 10 percent reside and Kogi, where 9 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 22 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 4 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 Anowe
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