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
The surname Sowore is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sowore? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 933,049th most commonly used surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 25,842,361 people. The last name Sowore is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Sowore live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sowore is also the 2,446,817th most numerous given name world-wide, borne by 20 people.
The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is held by 254 people, or 1 in 697,412. In Nigeria Sowore is most numerous in: Ondo, where 72 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Edo, where 4 percent live. Apart from Nigeria Sowore exists in 4 countries. It is also found 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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