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 found most frequently in Kenya. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Okanga? popularity and diffusion
Okanga is the 116,465th most frequent family name worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,841,219 people. The last name Okanga is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Okanga live; 64 percent live in East Africa and 36 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Okanga is also the 370,800th most frequent given name in the world It is held by 519 people.
Okanga is most widespread in Kenya, where it is carried by 2,136 people, or 1 in 21,620. In Kenya it is most common in: Kakamega County, where 46 percent live, Nairobi County, where 9 percent live and Homa Bay County, where 9 percent live. Beside Kenya Okanga occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 25 percent live and Uganda, where 10 percent live.
Okanga Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the surname is principally 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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