Okanga Surname
Approximately 3,958 people bear this surname
Okanga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 2,136 | 1:21,620 | 2,485 |
| Nigeria | 1,007 | 1:175,911 | 10,861 |
| Uganda | 393 | 1:99,337 | 10,009 |
| Congo | 186 | 1:26,823 | 2,879 |
| DR Congo | 171 | 1:432,044 | 35,878 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Germany | 6 | 1:13,417,576 | 340,600 |
| Tanzania | 5 | 1:10,588,323 | 75,430 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Okanga (519) may also be a first name.
Okanga Demographics
Okanga Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Okanga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okanga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okanga is most common in Kenya. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Okanga.
How Common Is The Last Name Okanga? popularity and diffusion
Okanga is the 116,465th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 1,841,219 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okanga are found; 64 percent are found in East Africa and 36 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Okanga is also the 370,800th most widely held first name worldwide, held by 519 people.
The surname is most common in Kenya, where it is borne by 2,136 people, or 1 in 21,620. In Kenya Okanga is mostly found in: Kakamega County, where 46 percent are found, Nairobi County, where 9 percent are found and Homa Bay County, where 9 percent are found. Not including Kenya this last name exists in 13 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 25 percent are found and Uganda, where 10 percent are found.
Okanga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is primarily 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 Okanga
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