Itoya Surname
Approximately 1,859 people bear this surname
Itoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,270 | 1:139,482 | 8,973 |
| Japan | 542 | 1:235,875 | 9,802 |
| England | 28 | 1:1,989,931 | 78,001 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 1:3,377,435 | 111,911 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Itoya (371) may also be a first name.
Itoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Itoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Itoya occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Itoya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 219,869th most numerous surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 3,920,143 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 68 percent of Itoya live; 68 percent live in West Africa and 68 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Itoya is also the 450,877th most frequent given name throughout the world, borne by 371 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,270 people, or 1 in 139,482. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Edo, where 56 percent reside, Delta, where 17 percent reside and Lagos, where 11 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria it occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Japan, where 29 percent reside and England, where 2 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 Itoya
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