Ovedje Surname
Approximately 1,870 people bear this surname
Ovedje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,859 | 1:95,289 | 6,550 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
Ovedje (142) may also be a first name.
Ovedje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ovedje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ovedje is more commonly found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ovedje? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 218,907th most frequently held last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 3,897,083 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ovedje reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ovedje is also the 775,413th most frequently occurring first name in the world, borne by 142 people.
The last name Ovedje is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,859 people, or 1 in 95,289. In Nigeria Ovedje is most numerous in: Delta, where 81 percent live, Edo, where 5 percent live and Rivers, where 4 percent live. Besides Nigeria this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also found in England, where 0 percent live and Russia, where 0 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 Ovedje
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