Owarume Surname
Approximately 273 people bear this surname
Owarume Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 267 | 1:663,456 | 30,992 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
Owarume Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owarume Come From? nationality or country of origin
Owarume is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of Owarume.
How Common Is The Last Name Owarume? popularity and diffusion
The surname Owarume is the 956,400th most widely held surname throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 26,694,307 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Owarume reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 267 people, or 1 in 663,456. In Nigeria Owarume is mostly found in: Delta, where 94 percent are found, Lagos, where 2 percent are found and Rivers, where 2 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent are found and England, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obarume | 86 | 54 | / |
| Ovarume | 86 | 6 | / |
| Owerume | 86 | 1 | / |
| Uwarume | 86 | 1 | / |
| Owarieme | 80 | 12 | / |
| Ovharume | 80 | 1 | / |
| Awarum | 77 | 2 | / |
| Oborume | 71 | 112 | / |
| Aborume | 71 | 2 | / |
| Owarimi | 71 | 2 | / |
| Hawarum | 71 | 1 | / |
| Ehwarime | 67 | 4 | / |
| Ehwarieme | 63 | 747 | / |
| Ewherueme | 63 | 1 | / |
| Ahwarieme | 63 | 1 | / |
| Aworum | 62 | 14 | / |
| Abarum | 62 | 4 | / |
| Ovorum | 62 | 3 | / |
| Oborum | 62 | 1 | / |
| Oworimi | 57 | 7 | / |
| Awarimi | 57 | 2 | / |
| Govorum | 57 | 1 | / |
| Avarome | 57 | 1 | / |
| Abarheum | 53 | 4 | / |
| Owoorimi | 53 | 3 | / |
| Awouroum | 53 | 1 | / |
| Overhime | 53 | 0 | / |
| Awourouma | 50 | 3 | / |
| Achuayrum | 50 | 1 | / |
| Everheume | 50 | 1 | / |
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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 Owarume
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis