Uwuoruya Surname
Approximately 127 people bear this surname
Uwuoruya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 122 | 1:1,451,990 | 55,913 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Uwuoruya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Uwuoruya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Uwuoruya is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Uwuoruya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,596,935th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 57,382,251 people. The last name Uwuoruya occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Uwuoruya live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 122 people, or 1 in 1,451,990. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Edo, where 89 percent are found, Federal Capital Territory, where 4 percent are found and Lagos, where 2 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent are found and Ghana, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Uwuoruya
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