Odetola Surname

100,616th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,693 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Odetola Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Odetola Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria4,5611:38,8393,119
England811:687,87739,238
United States371:9,796,187405,931
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Benin21:5,167,80184,334
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
France11:66,422,722504,397
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705

Odetola (129) may also be a first name.

Odetola Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Odetola Come From? nationality or country of origin

Odetola occurs most in Nigeria. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Odetola? popularity and diffusion

It is the 100,616th most frequent family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 1,552,854 people. The last name Odetola is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Odetola live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Odetola is also the 818,356th most common first name in the world. It is borne by 129 people.

This surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 4,561 people, or 1 in 38,839. In Nigeria Odetola is primarily found in: Osun, where 23 percent are found, Oyo, where 21 percent are found and Lagos, where 19 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria it is found in 13 countries. It is also found in England, where 2 percent are found and The United States, where 1 percent are found.

Odetola Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is primarily Muslim (73%) in Nigeria.

In The United States those holding the Odetola surname are 13.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 60% registered with the political party.

Odetola earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 98.44% more than the national average, earning $85,625 USD per year.

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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 Odetola
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