Osoneye Surname

1,281,391st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 178 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Osoneye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Osoneye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1701:1,042,01643,672
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
England31:18,572,686338,250
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Osoneye Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Osoneye Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Osoneye is found most in Nigeria. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Osoneye? popularity and diffusion

The last name Osoneye is the 1,281,391st most frequently held family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 40,941,269 people. The surname Osoneye occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Osoneye reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

The surname Osoneye is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 170 people, or 1 in 1,042,016. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Lagos, where 48 percent live, Ogun, where 35 percent live and Cross River, where 6 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Ghana, where 2 percent live and England, where 2 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
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  • 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 Osoneye
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