Sowore Surname
Approximately 282 people bear this surname
Sowore Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 254 | 1:697,412 | 32,206 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Cameroon | 10 | 1:2,076,907 | 105,188 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Sowore (20) may also be a first name.
Sowore Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sowore Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sowore occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowore? popularity and diffusion
Sowore is the 933,049th most commonly held surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 25,842,361 people. Sowore occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sowore are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 94 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sowore is also the 2,446,817th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 20 people.
The surname Sowore is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 254 people, or 1 in 697,412. In Nigeria Sowore is primarily found in: Ondo, where 72 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Edo, where 4 percent live. Besides Nigeria this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 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
- 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 Sowore
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