Wole Surname
Approximately 7,395 people bear this surname
Wole Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 3,542 | 1:27,540 | 3,358 |
| Nigeria | 2,483 | 1:71,342 | 5,137 |
| Indonesia | 500 | 1:264,498 | 23,945 |
| Ivory Coast | 248 | 1:93,029 | 4,883 |
| Tanzania | 181 | 1:292,495 | 22,657 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Cameroon | 66 | 1:314,683 | 29,051 |
| South Africa | 58 | 1:934,098 | 59,404 |
| Uganda | 46 | 1:848,680 | 39,357 |
| Benin | 43 | 1:240,363 | 21,480 |
| United States | 35 | 1:10,355,970 | 420,657 |
| Papua New Guinea | 34 | 1:239,815 | 32,925 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| Zimbabwe | 12 | 1:1,286,520 | 73,455 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Kenya | 5 | 1:9,235,980 | 55,978 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Sudan | 4 | 1:9,377,549 | 8,207 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 10 | 1:2,437,537 | 68,340 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Wole (11,389) may also be a first name.
Wole Demographics
Wole Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Religious Adherence
in Nigeria
Wole Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wole Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wole occurs in Ethiopia more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wole? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 67,315th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by around 1 in 985,469 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Wole reside; 51 percent reside in East Africa and 48 percent reside in Ethiosemitic Africa. Wole is also the 56,121st most prevalent given name internationally, held by 11,389 people.
The last name Wole is most numerous in Ethiopia, where it is held by 3,542 people, or 1 in 27,540. Aside from Ethiopia this surname occurs in 37 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 34 percent live and Indonesia, where 7 percent live.
Wole Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Wole has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Wole last name expanded 250 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 170 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Wole Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Christian (91%) in Nigeria.
The amount Wole earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 39.84% less than the national average, earning R 142,968 per year and in United States they earn 10.57% less than the national average, earning $38,586 USD per year.
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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 Wole
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