The OWUSU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,433	17970	0.001	5
United States (1880 census)	-1	115957	0	0
Change since 1880	+1434	+97987	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	14	67119	0	1
United Kingdom	693	6973	0.002	15

Top States for OWUSU by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	225	5976	0.001	12
Virginia	190	3143	0.003	27
Maryland	158	2678	0.003	30
New Jersey	140	4757	0.002	17
Illinois	86	10591	0.001	7
Top States for OWUSU by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maryland	158	2678	0.003	30
Virginia	190	3143	0.003	27
New Jersey	140	4757	0.002	17
Washington DC	9	4436	0.002	16
Massachusetts	82	6852	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OWUSU live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OWUSU represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OWUSU in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OWUSU by picking someone at random in Maryland than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OWUSU

Region of origin: Africa

Ethnic distribution of OWUSU in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	73	5.09
White (Caucasian)	14	0.98
White (Hispanic)	6	0.42
Black/African American	1,333	93.02
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OWUSU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to OWUSU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OWUSU.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.