Oket Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Oket Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 62 | 1:629,666 | 32,895 |
| Indonesia | 19 | 1:6,960,484 | 292,931 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Philippines | 4 | 1:25,309,556 | 279,062 |
| South Sudan | 4 | 1:2,853,769 | 1,758 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
The alternate forms: Öket (67) are calculated separately.
Oket (126) may also be a first name.
Oket Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oket Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oket (Russian: Окет) is most common in Uganda. It can also appear in the variant forms: Öket. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oket? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,746,159th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 66,250,417 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 75 percent of Oket are found; 62 percent are found in East Africa and 32 percent are found in Nilo-Saharan Africa. Oket is also the 829,183rd most numerous first name globally, held by 126 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Uganda, where it is borne by 62 people, or 1 in 629,666. In Uganda Oket is most frequent in: Lira District, where 32 percent reside, Wakiso District, where 15 percent reside and Kiboga District, where 15 percent reside. Beside Uganda this last name exists in 11 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 17 percent reside and Nigeria, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oket Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oket in the Russian language | ||
| Окет | oket | - |
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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 Oket
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