Okeneye Surname

868,551st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 312 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Okeneye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okeneye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3051:580,79628,045
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Zambia11:15,849,92253,989

Okeneye Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Okeneye Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Okeneye is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Okeneye.

How Common Is The Last Name Okeneye? popularity and diffusion

It is the 868,551st most commonly held last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 23,357,519 people. The last name Okeneye is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Okeneye are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 98 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 305 people, or 1 in 580,796. In Nigeria Okeneye is mostly found in: Ogun, where 41 percent live, Lagos, where 31 percent live and Bauchi, where 13 percent live. Without taking into account Nigeria it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 2 percent live and Zambia, where 0 percent live.

Okeneye Last Name Statistics demography

Okeneye earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 0.91% more than the national average, earning $43,542 USD per year.

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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 Okeneye
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