Obona Surname
Approximately 612 people bear this surname
Obona Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 346 | 1:511,973 | 25,378 |
| Philippines | 135 | 1:749,913 | 74,028 |
| Slovakia | 57 | 1:93,622 | 17,991 |
| Congo | 23 | 1:216,917 | 8,417 |
| Uganda | 13 | 1:3,003,021 | 81,551 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
The alternate forms: Oboňa (457) & Oboña (1) are calculated separately.
Obona (179) may also be a first name.
Obona Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obona Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Obona is found most in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Oboňa or Oboña. For other possible spellings of Obona click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Obona? popularity and diffusion
It is the 528,890th most widespread surname throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 11,907,755 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 66 percent of Obona live; 57 percent live in West Africa and 57 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 681,368th most prevalent first name worldwide It is held by 179 people.
This surname is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 346 people, or 1 in 511,973. In Nigeria Obona is most prevalent in: Cross River, where 49 percent reside, Rivers, where 12 percent reside and Ebonyi, where 8 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in The Philippines, where 22 percent reside and Slovakia, where 9 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
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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 Obona
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