Okah Surname
Approximately 11,912 people bear this surname
Okah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10,804 | 1:16,396 | 1,588 |
| Cameroon | 682 | 1:30,453 | 4,115 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| United States | 33 | 1:10,983,604 | 436,696 |
| Israel | 29 | 1:295,091 | 25,768 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Okah (2,208) may also be a first name.
Okah Demographics
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Okah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okah is found most in Nigeria. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Okah.
How Common Is The Last Name Okah? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 43,636th most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 611,782 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okah live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 159,191st most widespread forename world-wide, borne by 2,208 people.
The last name Okah is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 10,804 people, or 1 in 16,396. In Nigeria Okah is mostly concentrated in: Ebonyi, where 35 percent reside, Delta, where 12 percent reside and Rivers, where 9 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this surname exists in 29 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 6 percent reside and Ghana, where 2 percent reside.
Okah Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Okah surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Okah earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 95.85% less than the national average, earning R 9,864 per year and in United States they earn 0.98% more than the national average, earning $43,570 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 Okah
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