Owasia Surname
Approximately 87 people bear this surname
Owasia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 74 | 1:624,053 | 28,587 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Owasia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owasia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owasia is found most in Kenya. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Owasia? popularity and diffusion
The surname Owasia is the 2,007,164th most frequently occurring surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 83,764,896 people. The surname Owasia occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Owasia live; 86 percent live in East Africa and 85 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
Owasia is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is carried by 74 people, or 1 in 624,053. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Kakamega County, where 99 percent live and Vihiga County, where 1 percent live. Apart from Kenya Owasia is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 14 percent live and Uganda, where 1 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 Owasia
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