Ocharo Surname
Approximately 5,218 people bear this surname
Ocharo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 5,082 | 1:9,087 | 1,167 |
| Thailand | 43 | 1:1,642,752 | 213,663 |
| Peru | 22 | 1:1,444,733 | 22,095 |
| United States | 22 | 1:16,475,406 | 557,260 |
| Tanzania | 18 | 1:2,941,201 | 49,497 |
| Uganda | 14 | 1:2,788,520 | 78,087 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
Ocharo (1,115) may also be a first name.
Ocharo Demographics
Ocharo Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Ocharo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ocharo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ocharo is carried by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ocharo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ocharo is the 91,714th most frequently occurring surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,396,617 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ocharo live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 55 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 238,801st most frequently used first name on earth, borne by 1,115 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is carried by 5,082 people, or 1 in 9,087. In Kenya it is mostly concentrated in: Nyamira County, where 32 percent reside, Kisii County, where 29 percent reside and Nairobi County, where 12 percent reside. Barring Kenya Ocharo exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 1 percent reside and Peru, where 0 percent reside.
Ocharo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
The amount Ocharo earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 53.31% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,050 per year and in United States they earn 3.57% more than the national average, earning $44,688 USD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ocharo
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