O'Keife Surname
Approximately 37 people bear this surname
O'Keife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 32 | 1:1,741,189 | 71,393 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 30 | 1:1,673,956 | 87,330 |
O'Keife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name O'Keife Come From? nationality or country of origin
O'Keife occurs more in England more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of O'Keife.
How Common Is The Last Name O'Keife? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,228,735th most commonly used family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 196,960,700 people. It is predominantly found in Europe, where 86 percent of O'Keife reside; 86 percent reside in Northern Europe and 86 percent reside in British Isles.
The surname O'Keife is most common in England, where it is held by 32 people, or 1 in 1,741,189. In England it is most frequent in: Cornwall, where 28 percent reside, West Sussex, where 22 percent reside and Northamptonshire, where 19 percent reside. Apart from England this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 14 percent reside and Australia, where 3 percent reside.
O'Keife Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of O'Keife has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the O'Keife last name grew 1,067 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it fell 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 O'Keife
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