Obale Surname
Approximately 2,071 people bear this surname
Obale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 455 | 1:85,801 | 9,029 |
| Benin | 404 | 1:25,583 | 3,434 |
| Somalia | 392 | 1:34,316 | 1,714 |
| Nigeria | 383 | 1:462,514 | 23,465 |
| India | 152 | 1:5,046,483 | 126,094 |
| Congo | 83 | 1:60,110 | 5,403 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Cameroon | 57 | 1:364,370 | 32,302 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| England | 14 | 1:3,979,861 | 125,553 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Kenya | 6 | 1:7,696,650 | 52,907 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
The alternate forms: Obalé (2) are calculated separately.
Obale (126) may also be a first name.
Obale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Obale (Marathi: ओबळे) is borne by more people in Uganda than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Obalé. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Obale? popularity and diffusion
The last name Obale is the 201,348th most commonly occurring last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 3,518,854 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Obale are found; 41 percent are found in East Africa and 38 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 829,183rd most widely held first name throughout the world, held by 126 people.
The surname is most frequent in Uganda, where it is held by 455 people, or 1 in 85,801. In Uganda Obale is primarily concentrated in: Arua District, where 25 percent live, Soroti District, where 9 percent live and Serere District, where 9 percent live. Besides Uganda this last name occurs in 21 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 20 percent live and Somalia, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Obale Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Obale in the Marathi language | ||
| ओबळे | obale | 62.43 |
| ऑबळे | obale | 14.81 |
| ओबले | obale | 10.05 |
| ओबाळे | obale | 8.47 |
| बाळू | balu | 1.06 |
| ओबाऴे | obale | 1.06 |
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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 Obale
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