Onwusonye Surname
Approximately 630 people bear this surname
Onwusonye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 626 | 1:282,976 | 15,979 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Onwusonye (31) may also be a first name.
Onwusonye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onwusonye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Onwusonye is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Onwusonye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 517,348th most frequently held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 11,567,533 people. The surname Onwusonye occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Onwusonye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,874,099th most widespread first name globally It is held by 31 people.
Onwusonye is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 626 people, or 1 in 282,976. In Nigeria Onwusonye is most common in: Abia, where 44 percent are found, Lagos, where 14 percent are found and Rivers, where 11 percent are found. Beside Nigeria this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Belize, where 0 percent are found and Italy, where 0 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 Onwusonye
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