Onuegbe Surname

727,600th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 399 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Onuegbe Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Onuegbe Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3941:449,60122,976
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
Gambia11:1,923,4511,043

Onuegbe (34) may also be a first name.

Onuegbe Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Onuegbe Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Onuegbe is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Onuegbe? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 727,600th most frequent last name globally It is held by around 1 in 18,264,526 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Onuegbe are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Onuegbe is also the 1,775,424th most commonly used first name in the world It is held by 34 people.

The surname Onuegbe is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 394 people, or 1 in 449,601. In Nigeria Onuegbe is most frequent in: Abia, where 41 percent live, Enugu, where 27 percent live and Lagos, where 12 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and The Gambia, where 0 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 Onuegbe
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