Oliwaya Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Oliwaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Oliwaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oliwaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oliwaya is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Oliwaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Oliwaya is the 3,274,477th most widely held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Oliwaya reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 35 people, or 1 in 5,061,222. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Lagos, where 54 percent live, Ondo, where 34 percent live and Osun, where 11 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this surname is found in one country. It is also found in The United States, where 3 percent live.
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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 Oliwaya
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