Okerayi Surname

1,558,593rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 132 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Okerayi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okerayi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria1201:1,476,19056,575
United States71:51,779,848968,877
England31:18,572,686338,250
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

Okerayi (10) may also be a first name.

Okerayi Last Name Facts

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

The last name Okerayi is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Okerayi? popularity and diffusion

Okerayi is the 1,558,593rd most frequently occurring surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 55,208,681 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Okerayi reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 91 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most numerous first name world-wide It is held by 10 people.

Okerayi is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is held by 120 people, or 1 in 1,476,190. In Nigeria Okerayi is mostly concentrated in: Ogun, where 36 percent reside, Lagos, where 32 percent reside and Oyo, where 13 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 5 percent reside and England, where 2 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 Okerayi
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