The surname Nwosu
An Igbo surname, carried by 1,366 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex N200
Origin
Igbo origin
Borrowed from Igbo.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,366 people named Nwosu in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. That is up 61% since 2000, when the Census counted 849.
#19,716
rank among US surnames
1,366
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+60.9%
change since 2000 (was #26,898)
Who is named Nwosu
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
97% of people named Nwosu identified as Black (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races and 1.1% as white (not Hispanic).
- Black (not Hispanic) 97%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- White (not Hispanic) 1.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Nwosu
Nwosu has the Soundex code N200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N200.
Questions
- Where does the surname Nwosu come from?
- Borrowed from Igbo.
- How common is the surname Nwosu?
- 1,366 people in the United States had the surname Nwosu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,022 Americans. It ranked 19,716th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Nwosu?
- In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Nwosu identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Nwosu getting more or less common?
- More common. 849 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,366 in 2010, up 61%.