Owaboye Surname
Approximately 209 people bear this surname
Owaboye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 172 | 1:1,029,900 | 43,269 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Owaboye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owaboye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owaboye occurs most in Nigeria. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Owaboye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Owaboye is the 1,148,257th most widespread family name internationally, borne by around 1 in 34,868,641 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Owaboye reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Owaboye is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 172 people, or 1 in 1,029,900. In Nigeria Owaboye is most frequent in: Osun, where 45 percent live, Oyo, where 24 percent live and Lagos, where 15 percent live. Not including Nigeria Owaboye is found in 5 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 13 percent live and England, where 3 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
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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 Owaboye
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