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 is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owese? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,483,783rd most commonly used family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 121,459,099 people. Owese is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Owese reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Owese is also the 1,566,439th most frequent first name globally. It is borne by 42 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 54 people, or 1 in 3,280,421. In Nigeria it is most common in: Delta, where 39 percent live, Oyo, where 28 percent live and Benue, where 11 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 5 percent live and India, where 2 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
- 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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