Okeje Surname
Approximately 308 people bear this surname
Okeje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 244 | 1:725,995 | 33,220 |
| Uganda | 62 | 1:629,666 | 32,895 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okeje (12) may also be a first name.
Okeje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okeje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okeje is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okeje? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 876,631st most commonly used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 23,660,863 people. The surname Okeje occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okeje reside; 79 percent reside in West Africa and 79 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okeje is also the 3,306,491st most frequently occurring forename throughout the world, borne by 12 people.
The last name is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 244 people, or 1 in 725,995. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Enugu, where 22 percent live, Edo, where 18 percent live and Lagos, where 14 percent live. Barring Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 20 percent live and Iceland, where 0 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 Okeje
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