Ovunwo Surname
Approximately 216 people bear this surname
Ovunwo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 209 | 1:847,573 | 37,299 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
Ovunwo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ovunwo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ovunwo is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ovunwo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ovunwo is the 1,121,821st most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 33,738,638 people. Ovunwo occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Ovunwo reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 209 people, or 1 in 847,573. In Nigeria it is most common in: Rivers, where 100 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent reside and Canada, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Ovunwo
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