Odeba Surname
Approximately 310 people bear this surname
Odeba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 253 | 1:700,169 | 32,315 |
| Uganda | 47 | 1:830,623 | 38,869 |
| Kenya | 10 | 1:4,617,990 | 42,693 |
Odeba (32) may also be a first name.
Odeba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Odeba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Odeba is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Odeba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 872,430th most commonly occurring last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 23,508,213 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Odeba live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,840,253rd most frequent first name on earth, borne by 32 people.
The surname Odeba is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 253 people, or 1 in 700,169. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Benue, where 31 percent live, Lagos, where 15 percent live and Ogun, where 14 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 15 percent live and Kenya, where 3 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
- 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 Odeba
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