Ogundeji Surname

29,200th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 18,383 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Ogundeji Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ogundeji Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria18,2051:9,7301,064
England951:586,50635,379
United States461:7,879,542351,394
Canada131:2,834,276161,175
Sierra Leone41:1,772,408958
Ivory Coast41:5,767,80855,416
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Benin21:5,167,80184,334
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
France11:66,422,722504,397
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Wales11:3,094,53244,023

Ogundeji (578) may also be a first name.

Ogundeji Last Name Facts

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

The surname Ogundeji occurs most in Nigeria. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of Ogundeji click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ogundeji? popularity and diffusion

Ogundeji is the 29,200th most frequent surname on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 396,429 people. The last name Ogundeji occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ogundeji live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ogundeji is also the 348,378th most frequently used given name world-wide. It is borne by 578 people.

This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 18,205 people, or 1 in 9,730. In Nigeria Ogundeji is primarily concentrated in: Oyo, where 31 percent are found, Lagos, where 15 percent are found and Ondo, where 13 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in 16 countries. It is also found in England, where 1 percent are found and The United States, where 0 percent are found.

Ogundeji Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Ogundeji surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 100% being registered to vote for the party.

The amount Ogundeji earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 20.07% more than the national average, earning $51,810 USD per year and in Canada they earn 23.88% more than the national average, earning $61,545 CAD 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 Ogundeji
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