Onyie Surname
Approximately 143 people bear this surname
Onyie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 120 | 1:1,476,190 | 56,575 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Onyie (36) may also be a first name.
Onyie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Onyie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Onyie is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Onyie.
How Common Is The Last Name Onyie? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,478,479th most frequent family name globally, borne by around 1 in 50,961,860 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Onyie are found; 85 percent are found in West Africa and 84 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,717,090th most numerous first name throughout the world, borne by 36 people.
The last name Onyie is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 120 people, or 1 in 1,476,190. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Enugu, where 48 percent are found, Lagos, where 17 percent are found and Abia, where 7 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 9 percent are found and Uganda, where 4 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
- 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 Onyie
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