Oyome Surname
Approximately 138 people bear this surname
Oyome Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 133 | 1:1,331,900 | 52,479 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Oyome (22) may also be a first name.
Oyome Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oyome Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oyome is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyome? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,511,557th most commonly held last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 52,808,304 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Oyome live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Oyome is also the 2,301,746th most frequent first name in the world. It is borne by 22 people.
The last name Oyome is most common in Nigeria, where it is borne by 133 people, or 1 in 1,331,900. In Nigeria Oyome is primarily found in: Delta, where 48 percent are found, Lagos, where 12 percent are found and Rivers, where 8 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent are found and Gabon, where 1 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 Oyome
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