Okiji Surname
Approximately 567 people bear this surname
Okiji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 522 | 1:339,354 | 18,436 |
| England | 37 | 1:1,505,893 | 64,828 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
Okiji (14) may also be a first name.
Okiji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okiji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okiji is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Okiji? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 559,940th most prevalent family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 12,852,815 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Okiji live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okiji is also the 3,024,661st most prevalent first name internationally. It is borne by 14 people.
It is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 522 people, or 1 in 339,354. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Ogun, where 22 percent are found, Ondo, where 20 percent are found and Osun, where 19 percent are found. Barring Nigeria Okiji exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 7 percent are found and The United States, where 1 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 Okiji
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