Owora Surname
Approximately 2,509 people bear this surname
Owora Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 2,107 | 1:18,528 | 2,794 |
| Nigeria | 390 | 1:454,212 | 23,182 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Owora (154) may also be a first name.
Owora Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owora Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Owora is found most in Uganda. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Owora? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 171,573rd most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 2,904,562 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Owora reside; 84 percent reside in East Africa and 58 percent reside in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Owora is also the 740,891st most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 154 people.
The last name Owora is most frequently occurring in Uganda, where it is borne by 2,107 people, or 1 in 18,528. In Uganda Owora is most prevalent in: Tororo District, where 68 percent are found, Bugiri District, where 6 percent are found and Kampala District, where 5 percent are found. Apart from Uganda it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 16 percent are found and Canada, where 0 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 Owora
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