Awolabi Surname

686,443rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 432 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Awolabi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Awolabi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria4271:414,85421,592
Benin31:3,445,20177,822
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Awolabi (205) may also be a first name.

Awolabi Last Name Facts

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

Awolabi is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Awolabi click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Awolabi? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 686,443rd most commonly used last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 16,869,319 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Awolabi live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 632,267th most frequent forename worldwide It is held by 205 people.

The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 427 people, or 1 in 414,854. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Oyo, where 18 percent reside, Lagos, where 15 percent reside and Osun, where 15 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 1 percent reside and South Africa, where 0 percent reside.

Awolabi Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the last name is principally Christian (78%) in Nigeria.

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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 Awolabi
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