Oyaba Surname
Approximately 972 people bear this surname
Oyaba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 421 | 1:11,851 | 1,554 |
| Uganda | 285 | 1:136,980 | 12,468 |
| Nigeria | 155 | 1:1,142,857 | 46,821 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Oyaba (21) may also be a first name.
Oyaba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oyaba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oyaba is most common in The Congo. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Oyaba.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyaba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 369,806th most frequent last name globally, held by around 1 in 7,497,475 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Oyaba reside; 53 percent reside in Central Africa and 52 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Oyaba is also the 2,368,944th most frequently used first name world-wide, borne by 21 people.
Oyaba is most numerous in The Congo, where it is borne by 421 people, or 1 in 11,851. In The Congo Oyaba is most numerous in: Brazzaville Department, where 99 percent reside, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent reside and Pointe-Noire Department, where 0 percent reside. Aside from The Congo this surname is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 29 percent reside and Nigeria, where 16 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 Oyaba
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