Okees Surname
Approximately 124 people bear this surname
Okees Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 122 | 1:319,994 | 21,696 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Okees Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okees Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okees occurs more in Uganda more than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Okees.
How Common Is The Last Name Okees? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,620,164th most commonly occurring last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 58,770,532 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Okees live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 98 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The surname is most widely held in Uganda, where it is borne by 122 people, or 1 in 319,994. In Uganda Okees is most prevalent in: Katakwi District, where 99 percent are found and Buvuma District, where 1 percent are found. Besides Uganda Okees is found in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Okees
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