Nwabugwu Surname

276,388th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,403 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Nwabugwu Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nwabugwu Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1,3761:128,7378,407
United States141:25,889,924709,614
England41:13,929,515290,718
Benin11:10,335,602103,742
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Niger11:19,192,017110,060
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

Nwabugwu (283) may also be a first name.

Nwabugwu Last Name Facts

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

The surname Nwabugwu is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Nwabugwu? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 276,388th most widely held last name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 5,194,259 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Nwabugwu reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 526,385th most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 283 people.

Nwabugwu is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,376 people, or 1 in 128,737. In Nigeria Nwabugwu is primarily concentrated in: Lagos, where 21 percent live, Abia, where 20 percent live and Enugu, where 11 percent live. Not including Nigeria this last name occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, where 0 percent live.

Nwabugwu Last Name Statistics demography

Nwabugwu earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.51% less than the national average, earning $36,025 USD per year.

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Nwabukwu8878/
Nwabugbu8850/
Nwobugwu881/
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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 Nwabugwu
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