Okira Surname
Approximately 539 people bear this surname
Okira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 335 | 1:14,893 | 1,837 |
| Papua New Guinea | 86 | 1:94,811 | 12,690 |
| Indonesia | 43 | 1:3,075,563 | 171,061 |
| Uganda | 25 | 1:1,561,571 | 56,175 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Kenya | 13 | 1:3,552,300 | 39,474 |
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
Okira (270) may also be a first name.
Okira Demographics
Okira Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Okira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okira Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okira is held by more people in The Congo than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okira? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okira is the 582,011th most frequent last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 13,520,493 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 75 percent of Okira reside; 66 percent reside in Central Africa and 66 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Okira is also the 541,116th most commonly used first name worldwide, held by 270 people.
This surname is most widely held in The Congo, where it is borne by 335 people, or 1 in 14,893. In The Congo Okira is mostly concentrated in: Brazzaville Department, where 70 percent are found, Cuvette Department, where 24 percent are found and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 3 percent are found. Other than The Congo this surname exists in 10 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent are found and Indonesia, where 8 percent are found.
Okira Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Okira
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