Oyeme Surname
Approximately 220 people bear this surname
Oyeme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 181 | 1:978,689 | 41,594 |
| Cameroon | 33 | 1:629,366 | 47,277 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Oyeme (60) may also be a first name.
Oyeme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oyeme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oyeme is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyeme? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,108,016th most frequently occurring family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 33,125,209 people. Oyeme is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Oyeme are found; 83 percent are found in West Africa and 83 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Oyeme is also the 1,270,172nd most widely held first name internationally, borne by 60 people.
This surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 181 people, or 1 in 978,689. In Nigeria Oyeme is most frequent in: Delta, where 65 percent are found, Lagos, where 20 percent are found and Edo, where 5 percent are found. Without taking into account Nigeria this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 15 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 2 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
- 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 Oyeme
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