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 occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Owete.
How Common Is The Last Name Owete? popularity and diffusion
The surname Owete is the 722,496th most numerous surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 18,083,240 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 84 percent of Owete live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Owete is also the 3,684,242nd most prevalent first name on earth, held by 10 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 329 people, or 1 in 538,428. In Nigeria Owete is mostly concentrated in: Delta, where 49 percent are found, Enugu, where 12 percent are found and Borno, where 10 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name exists in 8 countries. It is also common in The Philippines, where 8 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, 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 Owete
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