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
Oram Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Oram Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oram Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oram (Hindi: ओराम, Marathi: ओरम, Oriya: ଓରାମ, Russian: Орам) is more commonly found in India than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Oram.
How Common Is The Last Name Oram? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,140th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 79,034 people. The last name occurs mostly 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 frequent first name globally It is held by 529 people.
Oram is most commonly held in India, where it is carried by 82,395 people, or 1 in 9,310. In India it is mostly found in: Odisha, where 99 percent are found, Telangana, where 0 percent are found and West Bengal, where 0 percent are found. Aside from India this last name is found 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 through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Oram surname expanded 563 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 95 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Oram Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Oram last name is predominantly 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 Republicans than the national average, with 61.07% registered to vote for the 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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