Owegbey Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Owegbey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 20 | 1:8,857,138 | 186,571 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Owegbey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owegbey Come From? nationality or country of origin
Owegbey occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Owegbey click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owegbey? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,034,050th most commonly used family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Owegbey reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 20 people, or 1 in 8,857,138. In Nigeria Owegbey is most common in: Edo, where 65 percent are found and Lagos, where 35 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in England, where 8 percent are found and The United States, where 8 percent are found.
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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 Owegbey
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