Onye Surname
Approximately 9,172 people bear this surname
Onye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 8,848 | 1:20,021 | 1,827 |
| Cameroon | 94 | 1:220,948 | 22,265 |
| United States | 82 | 1:4,420,231 | 233,612 |
| England | 52 | 1:1,071,501 | 51,923 |
| Romania | 37 | 1:542,645 | 40,475 |
| South Africa | 8 | 1:6,772,213 | 167,054 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 1:3,295,890 | 46,139 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 | 1:177,423 | 3,686 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Onye (1,474) may also be a first name.
Onye Demographics
Average Onye Salary in
United States
$36,238 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Onye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Onye is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Onye? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 55,390th most numerous family name globally, held by around 1 in 794,543 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Onye live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Onye is also the 202,756th most frequently used first name on earth It is held by 1,474 people.
The surname Onye is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 8,848 people, or 1 in 20,021. In Nigeria Onye is most common in: Imo, where 46 percent reside, Anambra, where 10 percent reside and Lagos, where 8 percent reside. Besides Nigeria Onye exists in 32 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Onye Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Onye last name are 26.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 80% being registered to vote for the political party.
Onye earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.02% less than the national average, earning $36,238 USD per year.
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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 Onye
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