Onyela Surname
Approximately 323 people bear this surname
Onyela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 314 | 1:564,149 | 27,398 |
| Uganda | 5 | 1:7,807,856 | 134,263 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
Onyela (66) may also be a first name.
Onyela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onyela Come From? nationality or country of origin
Onyela has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Onyela.
How Common Is The Last Name Onyela? popularity and diffusion
The surname Onyela is the 847,909th most frequently held last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 22,562,062 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Onyela reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Onyela is also the 1,201,840th most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 66 people.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 314 people, or 1 in 564,149. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Delta, where 42 percent live, Enugu, where 25 percent live and Abia, where 11 percent live. Not including Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 2 percent live and South Africa, where 1 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
- 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 Onyela
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