Owese Surname
Approximately 60 people bear this surname
Owese Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 54 | 1:3,280,421 | 99,135 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Owese (42) may also be a first name.
Owese Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owese Come From? nationality or country of origin
Owese has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Owese? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,483,783rd most frequently held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 121,459,099 people. The surname Owese is predominantly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Owese are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 90 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,566,439th most frequent first name worldwide It is held by 42 people.
The last name is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 3,280,421. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Delta, where 39 percent are found, Oyo, where 28 percent are found and Benue, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Nigeria Owese exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 5 percent are found and India, where 2 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 Owese
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