Ojobe Surname
Approximately 603 people bear this surname
Ojobe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 593 | 1:298,723 | 16,689 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Ojobe (103) may also be a first name.
Ojobe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ojobe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ojobe is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Ojobe.
How Common Is The Last Name Ojobe? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 534,813th most widely held last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,085,482 people. The surname Ojobe occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ojobe live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 930,172nd most widely held given name internationally. It is borne by 103 people.
The last name Ojobe is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 593 people, or 1 in 298,723. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Cross River, where 42 percent are found, Enugu, where 14 percent are found and Lagos, where 13 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent are found and Uganda, where 1 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 Ojobe
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