Okese Surname
Approximately 447 people bear this surname
Okese Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 253 | 1:292,014 | 26,830 |
| Japan | 150 | 1:852,295 | 18,638 |
| Nigeria | 41 | 1:4,320,555 | 118,938 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okese (51) may also be a first name.
Okese Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okese Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okese is found most in The DR Congo. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Okese? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 669,375th most commonly used family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 16,303,235 people. Okese occurs predominantly in Africa, where 66 percent of Okese live; 57 percent live in Central Africa and 57 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,396,783rd most commonly occurring first name worldwide. It is borne by 51 people.
Okese is most widespread in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 253 people, or 1 in 292,014. Apart from The DR Congo it occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 34 percent are found and Nigeria, where 9 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 Okese
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