Osume Surname
Approximately 397 people bear this surname
Osume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 380 | 1:466,165 | 23,604 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Osume (26) may also be a first name.
Osume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Osume Come From? nationality or country of origin
Osume occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Osume.
How Common Is The Last Name Osume? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 730,373rd most widely held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 18,356,539 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Osume live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Osume is also the 2,084,397th most frequently held forename worldwide It is held by 26 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 380 people, or 1 in 466,165. In Nigeria Osume is most common in: Delta, where 66 percent live, Plateau, where 9 percent live and Lagos, where 7 percent live. Barring Nigeria this surname occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent live and The DR Congo, where 1 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
- 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 Osume
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