Okeah Surname
Approximately 540 people bear this surname
Okeah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 530 | 1:334,232 | 18,224 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okeah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okeah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okeah is found most in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Okeah click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okeah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okeah is the 581,222nd most common last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 13,495,455 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Okeah reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Okeah is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 530 people, or 1 in 334,232. In Nigeria it is most common in: Rivers, where 90 percent live, Lagos, where 3 percent live and Bayelsa, where 2 percent live. Excluding Nigeria it is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Kenya, where 1 percent live and South Africa, 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
- 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 Okeah
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