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Nigeria surnames ranking

Ranking	Surname	Population	Percentage
1	Ibrahim	about 3,310,419	1.6899％
2	Musa	about 3,039,701	1.5517％
3	Abubakar	about 2,800,579	1.4296％
4	Abdullahi	about 2,553,566	1.3035％
5	Mohammed	about 2,338,925	1.1939％

　

　

Ranking	Surname	Population	Percentage
6	Sani	about 2,282,987	1.1654％
7	Adamu	about 2,077,339	1.0604％
8	Usman	about 1,873,607	0.9564％
9	Umar	about 1,870,193	0.9547％
10	Muhammad	about 1,720,605	0.8783％
11	Muhammed	about 1,649,136	0.8418％
12	Aliyu	about 1,342,157	0.6851％
13	Yusuf	about 1,267,014	0.6468％
14	Ali	about 1,145,538	0.5848％
15	Garba	about 1,040,132	0.5310％
16	Bello	about 993,587	0.5072％
17	Haruna	about 966,002	0.4931％
18	Hassan	about 929,412	0.4744％
19	Lawal	about 818,304	0.4177％
20	Aminu	about 778,492	0.3974％
21	Yakubu	about 749,081	0.3824％
22	Isah	about 741,897	0.3787％
23	John	about 725,432	0.3703％
24	Idris	about 725,125	0.3702％
25	Eze	about 683,500	0.3489％
26	Yahaya	about 680,952	0.3476％
27	Salisu	about 677,293	0.3457％
28	Ahmed	about 670,022	0.3420％
29	Sunday	about 640,471	0.3269％
30	Akpan	about 630,901	0.3221％
31	Isa	about 597,051	0.3048％
32	Shehu	about 592,567	0.3025％
33	Amadi	about 586,491	0.2994％
34	Bala	about 553,374	0.2825％
35	Umaru	about 525,916	0.2685％
36	Ahmad	about 514,971	0.2629％
37	Okafor	about 501,755	0.2561％
38	Emmanuel	about 461,777	0.2357％
39	Saidu	about 452,437	0.2310％
40	Rabiu	about 446,354	0.2278％
41	Joseph	about 437,001	0.2231％
42	James	about 430,639	0.2198％
43	Okeke	about 422,988	0.2159％
44	Audu	about 413,605	0.2111％
45	Samuel	about 410,625	0.2096％
46	Dauda	about 410,220	0.2094％
47	Ojo	about 409,473	0.2090％
48	Mustapha	about 408,877	0.2087％
49	Adebayo	about 405,463	0.2070％
50	Okoro	about 405,143	0.2068％
51	Suleiman	about 388,694	0.1984％
52	Sulaiman	about 382,920	0.1955％
53	Baba	about 380,054	0.1940％
54	Okon	about 374,112	0.1910％
55	Abba	about 372,282	0.1900％
56	Muhammadu	about 368,193	0.1879％
57	Peter	about 367,227	0.1875％
58	Chukwu	about 363,525	0.1856％
59	Igwe	about 358,662	0.1831％
60	Udo	about 357,523	0.1825％
61	Ajayi	about 355,435	0.1814％
62	Jimoh	about 341,545	0.1743％
63	Daniel	about 326,018	0.1664％
64	David	about 324,771	0.1658％
65	Nwachukwu	about 324,146	0.1655％
66	Obi	about 319,999	0.1633％
67	Kabiru	about 311,575	0.1590％
68	Ugwu	about 309,674	0.1581％
69	Nwankwo	about 302,367	0.1543％
70	Sule	about 300,629	0.1535％
71	Salihu	about 296,694	0.1515％
72	Sale	about 294,322	0.1502％
73	Adam	about 282,876	0.1444％
74	Lawan	about 275,792	0.1408％
75	Dahiru	about 274,404	0.1401％
76	Okoye	about 271,553	0.1386％
77	Njoku	about 270,900	0.1383％
78	Nuhu	about 269,942	0.1378％
79	Shuaibu	about 267,641	0.1366％
80	Bassey	about 265,482	0.1355％
81	Okonkwo	about 256,725	0.1310％
82	Ado	about 252,359	0.1288％
83	Yau	about 250,798	0.1280％
84	Alhaji	about 250,622	0.1279％
85	Nura	about 249,606	0.1274％
86	Nasiru	about 244,901	0.1250％
87	Hamza	about 244,349	0.1247％
88	Moses	about 244,167	0.1246％
89	Ogbonna	about 240,920	0.1230％
90	Ayuba	about 239,118	0.1221％
91	Ismail	about 234,252	0.1196％
92	Suleman	about 232,935	0.1189％
93	Nweke	about 227,856	0.1163％
94	Adeyemi	about 227,683	0.1162％
95	Yunusa	about 225,220	0.1150％
96	Bukar	about 222,358	0.1135％
97	Balogun	about 214,931	0.1097％
98	Nwafor	about 214,465	0.1095％
99	Azeez	about 214,078	0.1093％
100	Afolabi	about 213,255	0.1089％

※references : Forebears(2021)

　

※This ranking is based on our own research and compilation based on references.
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