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 surname Oyaba occurs in The Congo more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyaba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 369,806th most frequently held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 7,497,475 people. The surname Oyaba 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. It is also the 2,368,944th most frequently occurring first name internationally, held by 21 people.
Oyaba is most prevalent in The Congo, where it is carried by 421 people, or 1 in 11,851. In The Congo Oyaba is most common in: Brazzaville Department, where 99 percent are found, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent are found and Pointe-Noire Department, where 0 percent are found. Not including The Congo it occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 29 percent are found and Nigeria, where 16 percent are found.
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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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