Owete Surname
Approximately 403 people bear this surname
Owete Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 329 | 1:538,428 | 26,395 |
| Philippines | 33 | 1:3,067,825 | 142,207 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Uganda | 7 | 1:5,577,040 | 114,218 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Owete (10) may also be a first name.
Owete Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owete Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owete is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Owete click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owete? popularity and diffusion
Owete is the 722,496th most commonly occurring family name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 18,083,240 people. Owete occurs predominantly in Africa, where 84 percent of Owete live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most common given name globally. It is borne by 10 people.
It is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 329 people, or 1 in 538,428. In Nigeria Owete is primarily concentrated in: Delta, where 49 percent reside, Enugu, where 12 percent reside and Borno, where 10 percent reside. Beside Nigeria this surname exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in The Philippines, where 8 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Owete
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