Olway Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Olway Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 18 | 1:3,095,448 | 105,421 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 18 | 1:1,354,187 | 47,798 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:1,568,416 | 19,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Olway Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Olway Come From? nationality or country of origin
Olway is more commonly found in England than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Olway? popularity and diffusion
Olway is the 4,307,654th most frequent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 347,025,996 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 90 percent of Olway reside; 90 percent reside in Northern Europe and 90 percent reside in British Isles.
The surname is most widespread in England, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 3,095,448. In England Olway is mostly concentrated in: Greater Manchester, where 44 percent live, Cambridgeshire, where 33 percent live and Hampshire, where 6 percent live. Besides England this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 5 percent live and Nigeria, where 5 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
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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 Olway
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