Ojere Surname
Approximately 289 people bear this surname
Ojere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 265 | 1:668,463 | 31,178 |
| Latvia | 18 | 1:113,891 | 16,101 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Ojere (61) may also be a first name.
Ojere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ojere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ojere (Hindi: ओजेरे) is most common in Nigeria. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ojere? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ojere is the 917,199th most widely held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 25,216,422 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Ojere reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ojere is also the 1,257,960th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 61 people.
The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 265 people, or 1 in 668,463. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Delta, where 58 percent reside, Bayelsa, where 15 percent reside and Edo, where 7 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Latvia, where 6 percent reside and Uganda, where 1 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ojere Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ojere in the Hindi language | ||
| ओजेरे | ojere | - |
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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 Ojere
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