Ochige Surname
Approximately 75 people bear this surname
Ochige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 66 | 1:591,504 | 31,661 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
Ochige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ochige Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ochige occurs most in Uganda. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ochige click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ochige? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,185,341st most frequently held surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 97,167,279 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ochige live; 88 percent live in East Africa and 88 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This surname is most widely held in Uganda, where it is carried by 66 people, or 1 in 591,504. In Uganda Ochige is primarily concentrated in: Soroti District, where 45 percent live, Ngora District, where 44 percent live and Kampala District, where 8 percent live. Other than Uganda this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Nigeria, where 12 percent live.
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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 Ochige
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