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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

'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.

Meaning of OWUSU in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OWUSU.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OWUSU

The following words are slight variants of OWUSU that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.