Okiere Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Okiere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
The alternate forms: Okiéré (2) are calculated separately.
Okiere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okiere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okiere is found in The Congo more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as: Okiéré. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okiere? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 3,730,171st most widespread surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 71 percent of Okiere live; 36 percent live in West Africa and 36 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Okiere is most widely held in The Congo, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 554,344. In The Congo it is most frequent in: Brazzaville Department, where 44 percent reside and Cuvette Department, where 44 percent reside. Besides The Congo this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 32 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 18 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 Okiere
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