Olawole Surname
Approximately 10,895 people bear this surname
Olawole Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10,623 | 1:16,675 | 1,607 |
| United States | 84 | 1:4,314,987 | 229,510 |
| England | 81 | 1:687,877 | 39,238 |
| Benin | 79 | 1:130,830 | 14,100 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
The alternate forms: Olawolé (2) are calculated separately.
Olawole (5,476) may also be a first name.
Olawole Demographics
Olawole Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Olawole Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Olawole Come From? nationality or country of origin
Olawole occurs most in Nigeria. It may also be found in the variant forms: Olawolé. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Olawole? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 47,493rd most frequently used last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 668,889 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Olawole live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 90,779th most commonly occurring forename world-wide, borne by 5,476 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 10,623 people, or 1 in 16,675. In Nigeria Olawole is most frequent in: Ondo, where 22 percent reside, Osun, where 16 percent reside and Lagos, where 15 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name exists in 15 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and England, where 1 percent reside.
Olawole Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is chiefly Christian (83%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Olawole last name are 25.96% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 72.73% registered with the political party.
Olawole earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.32% less than the national average, earning $36,106 USD per year.
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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 Olawole
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