Oloyo Surname
Approximately 435 people bear this surname
Oloyo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 393 | 1:450,745 | 23,038 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
Oloyo (41) may also be a first name.
Oloyo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oloyo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oloyo is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of Oloyo click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oloyo? popularity and diffusion
Oloyo is the 683,026th most frequent surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 16,752,979 people. The surname Oloyo occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Oloyo live; 90 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,590,275th most commonly held first name in the world, borne by 41 people.
The surname Oloyo is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 393 people, or 1 in 450,745. In Nigeria Oloyo is primarily concentrated in: Lagos, where 27 percent are found, Edo, where 21 percent are found and Ondo, where 10 percent are found. Other than Nigeria it exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 5 percent are found and England, where 2 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 Oloyo
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