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
Okeje has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okeje? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 876,631st most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 23,660,863 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Okeje are found; 79 percent are found in West Africa and 79 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most frequently occurring forename worldwide, held by 12 people.
The last name Okeje is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 244 people, or 1 in 725,995. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Enugu, where 22 percent are found, Edo, where 18 percent are found and Lagos, where 14 percent are found. Barring Nigeria Okeje exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 20 percent are found and Iceland, where 0 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 Okeje
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