Owoju Surname
Approximately 82 people bear this surname
Owoju Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 81 | 1:2,186,948 | 74,923 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Owoju Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owoju Come From? nationality or country of origin
Owoju occurs most in Nigeria. It may also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owoju? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,075,631st most numerous last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 88,872,511 people. The last name Owoju occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Owoju live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is held by 81 people, or 1 in 2,186,948. In Nigeria it is most prevalent in: Lagos, where 41 percent are found, Ekiti, where 26 percent are found and Kogi, where 14 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 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 Owoju
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