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 surname Sowedo is found most frequently in Benin. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Sowedo.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowedo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sowedo is the 3,665,662nd most frequently held last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 251,294,687 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sowedo live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Sowedo is most common in Benin, where it is held by 27 people, or 1 in 382,800. In Benin it is most numerous in: Collines Department, where 100 percent reside. Aside from Benin this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 3 percent reside and Uganda, where 3 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 Sowedo
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