Orouna Surname
Approximately 76 people bear this surname
Orouna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 46 | 1:3,850,930 | 110,272 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Orouña (1) are calculated separately.
Orouna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orouna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Orouna is found most in Nigeria. It may also be rendered as a variant: Orouña. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Orouna? popularity and diffusion
Orouna is the 2,168,711th most widely held family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 95,888,762 people. The surname Orouna is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Orouna live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 46 people, or 1 in 3,850,930. In Nigeria Orouna is mostly found in: Delta, where 59 percent live, Bayelsa, where 37 percent live and Lagos, where 2 percent live. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 38 percent live and The United States, where 1 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 Orouna
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