Obiah Surname
Approximately 405 people bear this surname
Obiah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 269 | 1:658,523 | 30,783 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Obiah (63) may also be a first name.
Obiah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obiah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Obiah is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Obiah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Obiah is the 719,876th most commonly occurring surname globally, held by around 1 in 17,993,941 people. Obiah is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Obiah live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Obiah is also the 1,234,572nd most frequently occurring forename throughout the world, borne by 63 people.
The last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 269 people, or 1 in 658,523. In Nigeria Obiah is most numerous in: Abia, where 21 percent are found, Lagos, where 19 percent are found and Rivers, where 15 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 30 percent are found and Qatar, where 1 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 Obiah
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