Owuye Surname
Approximately 626 people bear this surname
Owuye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 597 | 1:296,722 | 16,613 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| Uganda | 10 | 1:3,903,928 | 93,934 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
Owuye (25) may also be a first name.
Owuye Demographics
Average Owuye Salary in
England
£20,790
Per year
Average Salary in
England
£26,976
Per year
Owuye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Owuye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Owuye occurs most in Nigeria. It may also be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Owuye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 520,022nd most commonly held family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 11,641,447 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Owuye are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Owuye is also the 2,136,160th most common given name on earth, borne by 25 people.
Owuye is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 597 people, or 1 in 296,722. In Nigeria it is primarily found in: Lagos, where 37 percent reside, Ogun, where 31 percent reside and Oyo, where 16 percent reside. Other than Nigeria it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 3 percent reside and Uganda, where 2 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 Owuye
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