Owosa Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Owosa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
Owosa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owosa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owosa is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owosa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Owosa is the 3,798,600th most frequent last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 269,909,108 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Owosa live; 52 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 14 people, or 1 in 12,653,054. In Nigeria it is most common in: Ogun, where 100 percent live. Besides Nigeria Owosa exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 33 percent live and Uganda, where 15 percent live.
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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 Owosa
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