Owums Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Owums Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
Owums Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owums Come From? nationality or country of origin
Owums is found most in Nigeria. It may also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owums? popularity and diffusion
The last name Owums is the 4,649,889th most numerous family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname Owums occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Owums reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 17 people, or 1 in 10,420,162. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Lagos, where 35 percent reside, Gombe, where 29 percent reside and Rivers, where 18 percent reside. Barring Nigeria it exists in one country. It is also found in The United Arab Emirates, where 6 percent reside.
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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 Owums
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