Olowo Surname
Approximately 20,220 people bear this surname
Olowo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10,820 | 1:16,372 | 1,585 |
| Uganda | 8,645 | 1:4,516 | 817 |
| Benin | 491 | 1:21,050 | 2,817 |
| United States | 95 | 1:3,815,357 | 209,650 |
| England | 60 | 1:928,634 | 47,428 |
| Indonesia | 57 | 1:2,320,161 | 139,963 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
Olowo (1,486) may also be a first name.
Olowo Demographics
Olowo Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Olowo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Olowo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Olowo is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can be found as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Olowo? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 26,592nd most frequently occurring family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 360,413 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Olowo live; 56 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Olowo is also the 201,767th most frequent first name on earth. It is borne by 1,486 people.
The surname is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 10,820 people, or 1 in 16,372. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Ekiti, where 18 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Kogi, where 10 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this surname occurs in 26 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 43 percent live and Benin, where 2 percent live.
Olowo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is primarily Christian (78%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Olowo last name are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% being registered with the political party.
The amount Olowo earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 36.07% less than the national average, earning 221,261 kr per year and in United States they earn 41.22% more than the national average, earning $60,936 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
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- 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 Olowo
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