Osome Surname
Approximately 515 people bear this surname
Osome Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 349 | 1:132,321 | 10,872 |
| Nigeria | 140 | 1:1,265,305 | 50,482 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Osome (46) may also be a first name.
Osome Demographics
Osome Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Osome Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Osome Come From? nationality or country of origin
Osome is most common in Kenya. It may also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Osome? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 602,749th most frequent family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 14,150,575 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Osome reside; 69 percent reside in East Africa and 54 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Osome is also the 1,484,914th most common given name in the world, held by 46 people.
The last name Osome is most common in Kenya, where it is held by 349 people, or 1 in 132,321. In Kenya Osome is primarily found in: Vihiga County, where 58 percent are found, Kisumu County, where 19 percent are found and Kakamega County, where 17 percent are found. Excluding Kenya this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 27 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found.
Osome Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Osome last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Osome
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