Sowedo Surname
Approximately 29 people bear this surname
Sowedo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 27 | 1:382,800 | 28,543 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Sowedo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowedo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sowedo is found most in Benin. It can appear as:. For other potential spellings of Sowedo click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowedo? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sowedo is the 3,665,662nd most frequent family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 251,294,687 people. The last name Sowedo occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sowedo live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 382,800. In Benin Sowedo is primarily found in: Collines Department, where 100 percent live. Aside from Benin it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 3 percent live and Uganda, where 3 percent live.
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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 Sowedo
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