Odewale Surname
Approximately 9,299 people bear this surname
Odewale Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 9,155 | 1:19,349 | 1,786 |
| England | 70 | 1:795,972 | 43,050 |
| United States | 33 | 1:10,983,604 | 436,696 |
| Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Odewale (524) may also be a first name.
Odewale Demographics
Odewale Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Odewale Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Odewale Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Odewale is most common in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Odewale? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 54,723rd most frequently occurring family name in the world, held by around 1 in 783,691 people. Odewale occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Odewale live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 368,711th most commonly used first name throughout the world. It is borne by 524 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 9,155 people, or 1 in 19,349. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Osun, where 29 percent are found, Lagos, where 19 percent are found and Ogun, where 14 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria it exists in 13 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.
Odewale Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Odewale surname is primarily Muslim (50%) in Nigeria.
Odewale earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 30.41% more than the national average, earning $56,269 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
- 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 Odewale
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