Ojigwe Surname
Approximately 474 people bear this surname
Ojigwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 471 | 1:376,099 | 20,048 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ojigwe (41) may also be a first name.
Ojigwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ojigwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ojigwe is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ojigwe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 641,055th most frequently used last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 15,374,569 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ojigwe reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,590,275th most frequently held forename in the world, held by 41 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 471 people, or 1 in 376,099. In Nigeria Ojigwe is most common in: Abia, where 56 percent reside, Lagos, where 11 percent reside and Federal Capital Territory, where 6 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Iceland, where 0 percent reside and South Africa, where 0 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 Ojigwe
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