Owegbe Surname
Approximately 196 people bear this surname
Owegbe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 184 | 1:962,732 | 41,060 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Owegbe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owegbe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owegbe occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of Owegbe click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owegbe? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,202,518th most common family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 37,181,357 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Owegbe are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Owegbe is most common in Nigeria, where it is held by 184 people, or 1 in 962,732. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Edo, where 50 percent live, Delta, where 32 percent live and Kaduna, where 6 percent live. Not including Nigeria Owegbe exists in 2 countries. It is also common in England, where 6 percent live and The United States, 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 Owegbe
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