Opara Surname
Approximately 179,469 people bear this surname
Opara Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 172,310 | 1:1,028 | 132 |
| Poland | 2,088 | 1:18,203 | 2,704 |
| United States | 928 | 1:390,581 | 34,314 |
| Ukraine | 920 | 1:49,481 | 7,164 |
| Kenya | 569 | 1:81,160 | 7,479 |
| England | 557 | 1:100,032 | 10,574 |
| Ghana | 416 | 1:64,954 | 6,785 |
| Uganda | 344 | 1:113,486 | 10,992 |
| Russia | 296 | 1:486,902 | 45,161 |
| Slovenia | 210 | 1:11,846 | 2,819 |
| Germany | 147 | 1:547,656 | 45,370 |
| Congo | 121 | 1:41,232 | 3,889 |
| Papua New Guinea | 102 | 1:79,938 | 10,532 |
| Canada | 94 | 1:391,974 | 34,739 |
| South Africa | 66 | 1:820,874 | 55,153 |
| Ireland | 28 | 1:168,176 | 7,397 |
| Spain | 23 | 1:2,032,697 | 53,462 |
| Iceland | 20 | 1:19,004 | 1,557 |
| Scotland | 17 | 1:314,930 | 14,413 |
| Gambia | 16 | 1:120,216 | 304 |
| Australia | 13 | 1:2,076,592 | 93,242 |
| Kazakhstan | 13 | 1:1,360,192 | 71,840 |
| Wales | 12 | 1:257,878 | 14,969 |
| Italy | 12 | 1:5,096,391 | 108,968 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| India | 11 | 1:69,733,217 | 610,955 |
| Mozambique | 9 | 1:3,029,063 | 2,946 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| New Zealand | 8 | 1:566,040 | 34,598 |
| Norway | 7 | 1:734,612 | 50,907 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Liberia | 6 | 1:734,756 | 29,369 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Denmark | 4 | 1:1,411,179 | 60,800 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1:950,174 | 18,811 |
| Austria | 4 | 1:2,128,859 | 91,203 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Azerbaijan | 2 | 1:4,824,561 | 42,415 |
| Namibia | 2 | 1:1,204,700 | 16,113 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Opara (1,573) may also be a first name.
Opara Demographics
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Opara Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Opara Come From? nationality or country of origin
Opara (Russian: Опара) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Opara? popularity and diffusion
Opara is the 3,134th most widely held family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 40,606 people. The last name Opara occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Opara live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 195,177th most commonly occurring forename worldwide, held by 1,573 people.
It is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 172,310 people, or 1 in 1,028. In Nigeria Opara is most frequent in: Imo, where 75 percent live, Lagos, where 6 percent live and Rivers, where 5 percent live. Barring Nigeria Opara is found in 72 countries. It also occurs in Poland, where 1 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.
Opara Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Opara has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 30,933 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Opara Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is predominantly Orthodox (88%) in Russia, Christian (100%) in Kenya, Christian (99%) in Nigeria and Orthodox (91%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Opara surname are 44.71% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 97.94% being registered with the party.
The amount Opara earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 39.63% less than the national average, earning 208,912 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 35.18% less than the national average, earning R 154,044 per year; in United States they earn 7.43% more than the national average, earning $46,356 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.15% more than the national average, earning $58,206 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Opara Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Opara in the Russian language | ||
| Опара | opara | - |
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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 Opara
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