Oram Surname
Approximately 92,208 people bear this surname
Oram Surname Definition:
(English) Dweller at the Enclosure on the River-Bank [Old English óra, a bank, shore + ham(m, a piece of land, enclosure] Owram, Yorks, is Oure in Domesday Book. An Orhcœm occurs in a 10th-cent. Berkshire charter.
Oram Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 82,395 | 1:9,310 | 777 |
| England | 3,865 | 1:14,416 | 2,125 |
| United States | 2,398 | 1:151,151 | 15,537 |
| Canada | 1,204 | 1:30,603 | 3,998 |
| Australia | 727 | 1:37,133 | 4,873 |
| New Zealand | 338 | 1:13,397 | 2,320 |
| Wales | 301 | 1:10,281 | 1,139 |
| Scotland | 155 | 1:34,541 | 3,395 |
| Turkey | 122 | 1:637,881 | 33,648 |
| Hong Kong | 70 | 1:104,793 | 1,905 |
| South Africa | 69 | 1:785,184 | 53,751 |
| Jamaica | 66 | 1:43,484 | 2,689 |
| Kuwait | 58 | 1:65,529 | 7,566 |
| Philippines | 57 | 1:1,776,109 | 113,042 |
| Nigeria | 54 | 1:3,280,421 | 99,135 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Germany | 29 | 1:2,776,050 | 134,833 |
| Netherlands | 23 | 1:734,225 | 57,169 |
| Iraq | 21 | 1:1,667,698 | 16,789 |
| Poland | 20 | 1:1,900,437 | 96,203 |
| Lebanon | 19 | 1:296,689 | 10,035 |
| Isle of Man | 18 | 1:4,768 | 1,008 |
| France | 17 | 1:3,907,219 | 231,005 |
| Switzerland | 14 | 1:586,637 | 40,624 |
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Spain | 9 | 1:5,194,671 | 82,436 |
| Czechia | 8 | 1:1,329,184 | 91,312 |
| Northern Ireland | 7 | 1:263,577 | 11,625 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 7 | 1:15,768 | 2,111 |
| Israel | 7 | 1:1,222,519 | 68,299 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 19 | 1:233,151 | 10,389 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 426 | 1:117,884 | 11,557 |
Oram (529) may also be a first name.
Oram Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(English) Dweller at the Enclosure on the River-Bank [Old English óra, a bank, shore + ham(m, a piece of land, enclosure] Owram, Yorks, is Oure in Domesday Book. An Orhcœm occurs in a 10th-cent. Berkshire charter.
Mr. Ferguson derives it from an old German word signifying weak, but it is more probably local. A family of De Horeham in the XIV. century took their name from an estate so called at Waldron, co. Sussex. Owram in Halifax, co. York, may possibly be the source.
From Owram; a location name in Yorkshire.
Oram Demographics
Average Male Oram Height
176.17 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Oram Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oram Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oram (Hindi: ओराम, Marathi: ओरम, Oriya: ଓରାମ, Russian: Орам) is most common in India. It can appear as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Oram? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 6,140th most commonly held family name globally It is held by around 1 in 79,034 people. The last name is mostly found in Asia, where 90 percent of Oram live; 89 percent live in South Asia and 89 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Oram is also the 366,789th most prevalent first name worldwide, borne by 529 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in India, where it is held by 82,395 people, or 1 in 9,310. In India it is most prevalent in: Odisha, where 99 percent are found, Telangana, where 0 percent are found and West Bengal, where 0 percent are found. Apart from India it exists in 66 countries. It also occurs in England, where 4 percent are found and The United States, where 3 percent are found.
Oram Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Oram has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Oram last name grew 563 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 95 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Oram Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is primarily Anglican (79%) in Ireland and Syriac Orthodox (88%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Oram last name are 14.3% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 61.07% registered with the political party.
The amount Oram earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 165.34% more than the national average, earning 918,283 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 20.89% more than the national average, earning R 287,280 per year; in United States they earn 8.75% more than the national average, earning $46,924 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.23% less than the national average, earning $46,590 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oram Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oram in the Oriya language | ||
| ଓରାମ | orama | 97.44 |
| ଓରାମ୍ | oram | 0.36 |
| ଓରାମା | orama | 0.06 |
| ଓରମ | orama | 0.04 |
| ଉରାମ | urama | 0.02 |
| ସମା | sama | 0.01 |
| ସାମ | sama | 0.01 |
| େସାମା | esama | 0 |
| ଆଲାମ | alama | 0 |
| ରଣା | rana | 0 |
| ଆରତି | arati | 0 |
| ରାଏ | ra'e | 0 |
| ରାନି | rani | 0 |
| େଯମା | eyama | 0 |
| ଚାମା | cama | 0 |
| ରବି | rabi | 0 |
| େହମ | ehama | 0 |
| ଅରାମ | arama | 0 |
| ଏରନ | erana | 0 |
| ଓରମା | orama | 0 |
| ରାମ | rama | 0 |
| ୋରାମ | orama | 0 |
| ଓରାଂ | oram | 0 |
| Oram in the Marathi language | ||
| ओरम | orama | 68.97 |
| फ़ोरम | forama | 17.82 |
| ओराम | orama | 12.07 |
| ऑरम | orama | 1.15 |
| Oram in the Hindi language | ||
| ओराम | orama | 50 |
| ओरम | orama | 43.75 |
| ओ्रम | orama | 6.25 |
| Oram in the Russian language | ||
| Орам | oram | - |
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