Obeja Surname
Approximately 1,302 people bear this surname
Obeja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 974 | 1:103,941 | 18,061 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Tanzania | 60 | 1:882,360 | 43,917 |
| Uganda | 39 | 1:1,001,007 | 43,411 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Obeja (143) may also be a first name.
Obeja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obeja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Obeja is more frequently found in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Obeja? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 293,375th most frequent last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 5,597,193 people. The last name Obeja is primarily found in Asia, where 91 percent of Obeja are found; 75 percent are found in Southeast Asia and 75 percent are found in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 772,378th most widely held forename internationally, borne by 143 people.
The last name Obeja is most commonly used in The Philippines, where it is borne by 974 people, or 1 in 103,941. In The Philippines it is mostly found in: Western Visayas, where 25 percent live, National Capital Region, where 18 percent live and Eastern Visayas, where 14 percent live. Besides The Philippines this last name occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Saudi Arabia, where 15 percent live and Tanzania, where 5 percent live.
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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 Obeja
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