Ontoye Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Ontoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 49 | 1:3,615,158 | 105,602 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ontoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ontoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ontoye has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Ontoye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ontoye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ontoye is the 2,746,821st most frequent family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. The surname Ontoye is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ontoye live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
It is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 49 people, or 1 in 3,615,158. In Nigeria Ontoye is most common in: Lagos, where 45 percent are found, Ogun, where 29 percent are found and Kaduna, where 16 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, 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
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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 Ontoye
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