Uwom Surname
Approximately 612 people bear this surname
Uwom Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 599 | 1:295,731 | 16,575 |
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Uwom (76) may also be a first name.
Uwom Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Uwom Come From? nationality or country of origin
Uwom is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Uwom? popularity and diffusion
The last name Uwom is the 528,890th most frequently occurring last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 11,907,755 people. The surname Uwom is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Uwom reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Uwom is also the 1,107,702nd most commonly held first name worldwide It is held by 76 people.
The last name Uwom is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 599 people, or 1 in 295,731. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Abia, where 37 percent reside, Rivers, where 29 percent reside and Ebonyi, where 9 percent reside. Without taking into account Nigeria it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Malaysia, where 1 percent reside and England, where 1 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 Uwom
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