Odirah Surname
Approximately 40 people bear this surname
Odirah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 29 | 1:6,108,371 | 148,179 |
| Kenya | 11 | 1:4,198,173 | 41,178 |
Odirah (100) may also be a first name.
Odirah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Odirah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Odirah occurs most in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Odirah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,100,440th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 182,188,648 people. The surname Odirah is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Odirah live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Odirah is also the 946,056th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 100 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 29 people, or 1 in 6,108,371. In Nigeria Odirah is most prevalent in: Bayelsa, where 24 percent reside, Lagos, where 24 percent reside and Federal Capital Territory, where 17 percent reside. Excluding Nigeria it exists in one country. It is also common in Kenya, where 28 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 Odirah
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