Owobu Surname
Approximately 2,707 people bear this surname
Owobu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2,678 | 1:66,147 | 4,843 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Owobu (58) may also be a first name.
Owobu Demographics
Average Owobu Salary in
United States
$77,917 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Owobu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owobu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Owobu is found most in Nigeria. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Owobu.
How Common Is The Last Name Owobu? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 160,968th most commonly held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 2,692,112 people. Owobu is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Owobu live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Owobu is also the 1,295,729th most frequent first name throughout the world It is held by 58 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 2,678 people, or 1 in 66,147. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Edo, where 60 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Delta, where 11 percent live. Beside Nigeria this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found in England, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
Owobu Last Name Statistics demography
Owobu earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In United States they earn 80.58% more than the national average, earning $77,917 USD per year.
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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 Owobu
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