Okwuwasi Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Okwuwasi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 15 | 1:11,809,517 | 219,567 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okwuwasi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okwuwasi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okwuwasi is most common in Nigeria. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okwuwasi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okwuwasi is the 4,908,606th most common family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Okwuwasi live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Okwuwasi is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 11,809,517. In Nigeria Okwuwasi is most prevalent in: Lagos, where 53 percent are found and Abia, where 47 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 6 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 Okwuwasi
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