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.
Osuji Demographics
Osuji Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Osuji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Osuji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Osuji is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Osuji? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 6,986th most common family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 89,829 people. The surname Osuji occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Osuji reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 453,251st most frequently occurring first name at a global level, held by 368 people.
The last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 79,736 people, or 1 in 2,222. In Nigeria Osuji is most common in: Imo, where 70 percent live, Lagos, where 5 percent live and Anambra, where 5 percent live. Besides Nigeria this surname is found in 45 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 1 percent live and Ghana, where 0 percent live.
Osuji Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those bearing the Osuji surname are 42.54% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 95.77% being registered to vote for the political 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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