Okbah Surname

2,718,172nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 51 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United Arab Emirates
Highest density in:
United Arab Emirates

Okbah Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okbah Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United Arab Emirates401:229,05715,464
Indonesia41:33,062,298643,618
Saudi Arabia41:7,713,95437,548
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049

Okbah (18) may also be a first name.

Okbah Last Name Facts

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

The surname Okbah is held by more people in The United Arab Emirates than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Okbah? popularity and diffusion

Okbah is the 2,718,172nd most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 142,893,057 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 96 percent of Okbah reside; 86 percent reside in West Asia and 86 percent reside in Arabian Peninsula. It is also the 2,608,198th most common given name worldwide. It is borne by 18 people.

Okbah is most frequently held in The United Arab Emirates, where it is borne by 40 people, or 1 in 229,057. In The United Arab Emirates it is primarily found in: Dubai, where 3 percent are found. Besides The United Arab Emirates this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 8 percent are found and Saudi Arabia, where 8 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ogbah80794/
Oqbah80446/
Akbah8016/
Okgba801/
Ogbaah7360/
Ogbeah737/
Ogbaha732/
Ogbath731/
Ogba6722,417/
Goigbah671/
Gougbah671/

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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 Okbah
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