Ossai Surname
Approximately 68,241 people bear this surname
Ossai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 67,228 | 1:2,635 | 343 |
| Ghana | 623 | 1:43,372 | 4,874 |
| England | 163 | 1:341,829 | 24,929 |
| United States | 136 | 1:2,665,139 | 160,299 |
| South Africa | 18 | 1:3,009,872 | 112,058 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:773,633 | 29,106 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Iceland | 4 | 1:95,022 | 4,787 |
| Belarus | 4 | 1:2,375,265 | 105,497 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Ossai (1,648) may also be a first name.
Ossai Demographics
Ossai Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Ossai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ossai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ossai occurs most in Nigeria. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ossai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ossai is the 8,351st most commonly used surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 106,791 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ossai reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ossai is also the 189,831st most frequent given name world-wide It is held by 1,648 people.
This surname is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 67,228 people, or 1 in 2,635. In Nigeria Ossai is most numerous in: Delta, where 39 percent reside, Enugu, where 15 percent reside and Anambra, where 13 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria Ossai is found in 34 countries. It is also common in Ghana, where 1 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.
Ossai Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is primarily Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Ossai surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 100% being registered with the party.
The amount Ossai earn in different countries varies significantly. In United States they earn 3.57% more than the national average, earning $44,688 USD per year and in Canada they earn 24.52% less than the national average, earning $37,500 CAD per year.
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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 Ossai
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