Owoyi Surname

1,860,621st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 99 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Congo

Owoyi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Owoyi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria871:2,036,12471,256
Congo101:498,91011,250
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887

Owoyi (232) may also be a first name.

Owoyi Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Owoyi Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Owoyi is found in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Owoyi? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,860,621st most commonly held surname in the world, held by around 1 in 73,611,575 people. The last name Owoyi is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Owoyi are found; 88 percent are found in West Africa and 88 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 588,797th most frequently used given name worldwide It is held by 232 people.

The last name Owoyi is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 87 people, or 1 in 2,036,124. In Nigeria Owoyi is most frequent in: Delta, where 43 percent live, Edo, where 25 percent live and Lagos, where 15 percent live. Aside from Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The Congo, where 10 percent live and South Africa, where 1 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
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  • 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 Owoyi
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