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
Orouna is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant: Orouña. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Orouna? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,168,711th most numerous last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 95,888,762 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Orouna reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Orouna is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 46 people, or 1 in 3,850,930. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Delta, where 59 percent reside, Bayelsa, where 37 percent reside and Lagos, where 2 percent reside. Beside Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 38 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
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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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