Nwaodu Surname
Approximately 1,112 people bear this surname
Nwaodu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,100 | 1:161,039 | 10,087 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Nwaodu (24) may also be a first name.
Nwaodu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nwaodu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Nwaodu is found most in Nigeria. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nwaodu? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 332,527th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 6,553,548 people. The last name Nwaodu occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nwaodu live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nwaodu is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently used first name at a global level. It is borne by 24 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,100 people, or 1 in 161,039. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Abia, where 25 percent are found, Lagos, where 17 percent are found and Rivers, where 17 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 0 percent are found and Sweden, 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 Nwaodu
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