Nwoji Surname

195,028th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,153 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Nwoji Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nwoji Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria2,1251:83,3615,879
England111:5,065,278148,650
United States101:36,245,893832,629
Greece31:3,693,263126,191
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Sierra Leone11:7,089,6311,533
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Nwoji (182) may also be a first name.

Nwoji Last Name Facts

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

Nwoji is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Nwoji? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 195,028th most commonly occurring family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,384,833 people. The last name Nwoji occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Nwoji reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Nwoji is also the 675,152nd most frequent first name on earth It is held by 182 people.

The last name Nwoji is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 2,125 people, or 1 in 83,361. In Nigeria Nwoji is most frequent in: Ebonyi, where 57 percent are found, Abia, where 10 percent are found and Enugu, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria Nwoji is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent are found and The United States, 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 Nwoji
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