Orole Surname
Approximately 472 people bear this surname
Orole Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 411 | 1:431,004 | 22,235 |
| Latvia | 42 | 1:48,811 | 7,408 |
| Belgium | 15 | 1:766,443 | 63,354 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Orolé (14) are calculated separately.
Orole (10) may also be a first name.
Orole Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orole Come From? nationality or country of origin
Orole occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can appear as: Orolé. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Orole? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 642,991st most widespread last name globally, held by around 1 in 15,439,716 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 88 percent of Orole reside; 87 percent reside in West Africa and 87 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Orole is also the 3,684,242nd most frequent given name globally, borne by 10 people.
Orole is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 411 people, or 1 in 431,004. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Ondo, where 64 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Edo, where 8 percent live. Excluding Nigeria this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Latvia, where 9 percent live and Belgium, where 3 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 Orole
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