Awoyelu Surname
Approximately 331 people bear this surname
Awoyelu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 321 | 1:551,847 | 26,913 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Awoyelu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awoyelu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Awoyelu is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Awoyelu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 833,931st most commonly used surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 22,016,755 people. Awoyelu occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Awoyelu reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Awoyelu is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 321 people, or 1 in 551,847. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Osun, where 43 percent are found, Ekiti, where 26 percent are found and Lagos, where 12 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent are found and Northern Ireland, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Awoyelu
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