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
Oyaba has its highest incidence in The Congo. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyaba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 369,806th most commonly held surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 7,497,475 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Oyaba live; 53 percent live in Central Africa and 52 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Oyaba is also the 2,368,944th most commonly used first name globally, held by 21 people.
Oyaba is most widespread in The Congo, where it is carried by 421 people, or 1 in 11,851. In The Congo Oyaba is primarily found in: Brazzaville Department, where 99 percent reside, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent reside and Pointe-Noire Department, where 0 percent reside. Apart from The Congo this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found 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
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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 Oyaba
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