O' Donovan Surname

1,064,392nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 234 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

O' Donovan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

O' Donovan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2341:231,52923,959

O' Donovan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name O' Donovan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname O' Donovan is held by more people in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name O' Donovan? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,064,392nd most commonly held last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 31,143,359 people. The surname O' Donovan is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of O' Donovan reside; 100 percent reside in Southern Africa and 100 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.

The last name is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is borne by 234 people, or 1 in 231,529. In South Africa it is most numerous in: Gauteng, where 37 percent reside, KwaZulu-Natal, where 19 percent reside and Western Cape, where 18 percent reside.

O' Donovan Last Name Statistics demography

O' Donovan earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 64.23% more than the national average, earning R 390,264 per year.

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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 O' Donovan
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