Ogwara Surname
Approximately 1,465 people bear this surname
Ogwara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 888 | 1:199,485 | 11,965 |
| Uganda | 499 | 1:78,235 | 8,448 |
| Kenya | 70 | 1:659,713 | 29,380 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Ogwara (86) may also be a first name.
Ogwara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ogwara Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ogwara occurs most in Nigeria. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ogwara? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 266,766th most commonly held surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 4,974,434 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ogwara reside; 61 percent reside in West Africa and 61 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ogwara is also the 1,032,266th most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 86 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 888 people, or 1 in 199,485. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Delta, where 64 percent are found, Lagos, where 10 percent are found and Edo, where 9 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 34 percent are found and Kenya, where 5 percent are found.
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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 Ogwara
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