Okanoya Surname

1,315,412th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 171 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Japan
Highest density in:
Japan

Okanoya Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okanoya Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Japan1681:760,97817,707
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049

Okanoya Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Okanoya Come From? nationality or country of origin

Okanoya is held by more people in Japan than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Okanoya? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,315,412th most numerous last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 42,617,228 people. Okanoya occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Okanoya are found; 98 percent are found in East Asia and 98 percent are found in Nippono-Asia.

It is most frequently occurring in Japan, where it is held by 168 people, or 1 in 760,978. In Japan it is primarily found in: Tochigi Prefecture, where 45 percent live, Shizuoka Prefecture, where 26 percent live and Gunma Prefecture, where 20 percent live. Barring Japan this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The Philippines, where 1 percent live and Qatar, where 1 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
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  • 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 Okanoya
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