Ojemba Surname
Approximately 199 people bear this surname
Ojemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 193 | 1:917,838 | 39,641 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Ojemba (116) may also be a first name.
Ojemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ojemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ojemba is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ojemba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ojemba is the 1,189,614th most prevalent surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 36,620,834 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ojemba live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 868,627th most numerous first name at a global level, held by 116 people.
This last name is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 193 people, or 1 in 917,838. In Nigeria Ojemba is mostly concentrated in: Ebonyi, where 24 percent reside, Lagos, where 19 percent reside and Cross River, where 14 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 2 percent reside and Brazil, 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 Ojemba
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