Osuji Surname
Approximately 81,127 people bear this surname
Osuji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 79,736 | 1:2,222 | 286 |
| United States | 547 | 1:662,631 | 52,967 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| England | 256 | 1:217,649 | 18,479 |
| Canada | 44 | 1:837,400 | 65,151 |
| South Africa | 34 | 1:1,593,462 | 80,086 |
| Sweden | 16 | 1:615,422 | 45,338 |
| Ireland | 14 | 1:336,353 | 12,021 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Austria | 12 | 1:709,620 | 61,025 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| Iceland | 9 | 1:42,232 | 2,922 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Wales | 6 | 1:515,755 | 23,171 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Scotland | 6 | 1:892,303 | 28,047 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 5 | 1:272,795 | 11,064 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Romania | 4 | 1:5,019,468 | 62,922 |
| Spain | 4 | 1:11,688,009 | 116,470 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Somalia | 1 | 1:13,452,061 | 9,224 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
Osuji (368) may also be a first name.
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Osuji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Osuji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Osuji is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Osuji? popularity and diffusion
It is the 6,986th most frequently occurring family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 89,829 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Osuji live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 453,251st most prevalent given name worldwide, borne by 368 people.
The surname Osuji is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 79,736 people, or 1 in 2,222. In Nigeria Osuji is mostly found in: Imo, where 70 percent reside, Lagos, where 5 percent reside and Anambra, where 5 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this surname exists in 45 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Ghana, where 0 percent reside.
Osuji Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Osuji surname are 42.54% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.77% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Osuji earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 61.57% less than the national average, earning R 91,332 per year; in United States they earn 15.4% more than the national average, earning $49,792 USD per year and in Canada they earn 5.62% more than the national average, earning $52,477 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
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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 Osuji
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