Ofere Surname
Approximately 1,319 people bear this surname
Ofere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,270 | 1:139,482 | 8,973 |
| Cameroon | 18 | 1:1,153,837 | 70,128 |
| Sudan | 9 | 1:4,167,799 | 5,799 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
Ofere (80) may also be a first name.
Ofere Demographics
Ofere Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Ofere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ofere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ofere occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ofere? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ofere is the 290,346th most frequently occurring surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 5,525,054 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ofere live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ofere is also the 1,075,395th most commonly held first name world-wide, borne by 80 people.
The surname is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,270 people, or 1 in 139,482. In Nigeria Ofere is most frequent in: Cross River, where 23 percent live, Ekiti, where 18 percent live and Delta, where 14 percent live. Excluding Nigeria Ofere is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and Sudan, where 1 percent live.
Ofere Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Ofere
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