Onou Surname
Approximately 384 people bear this surname
Onou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 222 | 1:797,940 | 35,665 |
| Benin | 67 | 1:154,263 | 15,890 |
| Papua New Guinea | 37 | 1:220,371 | 30,351 |
| Ivory Coast | 22 | 1:1,048,692 | 25,281 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Onou (49) may also be a first name.
Onou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Onou occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Onou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 748,537th most frequently occurring surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 18,977,984 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Onou live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,430,306th most commonly used forename in the world It is held by 49 people.
Onou is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 222 people, or 1 in 797,940. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Delta, where 48 percent are found, Lagos, where 11 percent are found and Edo, where 10 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria this surname exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 17 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 10 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 Onou
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