Okechukw Surname
Approximately 31 people bear this surname
Okechukw Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 27 | 1:6,560,843 | 154,927 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Okechukw (78) may also be a first name.
Okechukw Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okechukw Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okechukw is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okechukw? popularity and diffusion
Okechukw is the 3,543,123rd most common last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 87 percent of Okechukw reside; 87 percent reside in West Africa and 87 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okechukw is also the 1,091,646th most widespread first name on earth, borne by 78 people.
Okechukw is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is carried by 27 people, or 1 in 6,560,843. In Nigeria Okechukw is most prevalent in: Lagos, where 33 percent reside, Oyo, where 19 percent reside and Abia, where 15 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 6 percent reside and China, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Okechukw
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