Okiefe Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Okiefe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Okiefe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okiefe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okiefe is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Okiefe.
How Common Is The Last Name Okiefe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Okiefe is the 5,391,485th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 92 percent of Okiefe live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Okiefe is most common in Nigeria, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 14,761,896. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Ebonyi, where 92 percent live and Lagos, where 8 percent live. Other than Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 8 percent live.
Okiefe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Okiefe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Okiefe last name fell 87 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Okiefe
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