Otoja Surname
Approximately 312 people bear this surname
Otoja Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 311 | 1:569,591 | 27,605 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Otoja (21) may also be a first name.
Otoja Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Otoja Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Otoja is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Otoja click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Otoja? popularity and diffusion
Otoja is the 868,551st most widespread surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 23,357,519 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Otoja live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Otoja is also the 2,368,944th most commonly used forename internationally, held by 21 people.
The surname is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is borne by 311 people, or 1 in 569,591. In Nigeria Otoja is most frequent in: Benue, where 53 percent are found, Delta, where 17 percent are found and Ogun, where 8 percent are found. Not including Nigeria it is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Otoja
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