Oboba Surname
Approximately 1,316 people bear this surname
Oboba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 737 | 1:240,357 | 13,958 |
| Congo | 555 | 1:8,989 | 1,288 |
| France | 16 | 1:4,151,420 | 237,746 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Oboba (11) may also be a first name.
Oboba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oboba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oboba is found most in Nigeria. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Oboba.
How Common Is The Last Name Oboba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 290,856th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 5,537,649 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Oboba are found; 56 percent are found in West Africa and 56 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Oboba is also the 3,487,849th most commonly held forename world-wide. It is borne by 11 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 737 people, or 1 in 240,357. In Nigeria Oboba is most prevalent in: Delta, where 68 percent reside, Lagos, where 8 percent reside and Edo, where 5 percent reside. Other than Nigeria this surname is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 42 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Oboba
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