Ogaje Surname
Approximately 481 people bear this surname
Ogaje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 467 | 1:379,321 | 20,165 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Ogaje (47) may also be a first name.
Ogaje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ogaje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ogaje occurs most in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Ogaje click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ogaje? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 634,180th most frequently held family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 15,150,823 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ogaje live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,467,136th most numerous given name world-wide, borne by 47 people.
The surname Ogaje is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 467 people, or 1 in 379,321. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Benue, where 55 percent reside, Kano, where 7 percent reside and Lagos, where 6 percent reside. Barring Nigeria it exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 2 percent reside and The United States, where 1 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 Ogaje
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