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
Owuye is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Owuye? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 520,022nd most numerous family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 11,641,447 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Owuye reside; 95 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Owuye is also the 2,136,160th most frequent given name in the world, held by 25 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 597 people, or 1 in 296,722. In Nigeria Owuye is primarily found in: Lagos, where 37 percent live, Ogun, where 31 percent live and Oyo, where 16 percent live. Besides Nigeria this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 3 percent live and Uganda, where 2 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 Owuye
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