Onyere Surname
Approximately 126 people bear this surname
Onyere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 81 | 1:2,186,948 | 74,923 |
| Uganda | 25 | 1:1,561,571 | 56,175 |
| Kenya | 18 | 1:2,565,550 | 37,160 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Onyere (45) may also be a first name.
Onyere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onyere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Onyere is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Onyere click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Onyere? popularity and diffusion
The surname Onyere is the 1,604,449th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 57,837,666 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Onyere live; 65 percent live in West Africa and 65 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Onyere is also the 1,504,468th most prevalent first name world-wide, held by 45 people.
Onyere is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 81 people, or 1 in 2,186,948. In Nigeria it is most common in: Abia, where 36 percent live, Rivers, where 27 percent live and Oyo, where 7 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 20 percent live and Kenya, where 14 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 Onyere
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