Okoa Surname
Approximately 1,149 people bear this surname
Okoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 908 | 1:22,873 | 3,107 |
| Papua New Guinea | 80 | 1:101,921 | 13,735 |
| Nigeria | 73 | 1:2,426,613 | 80,686 |
| Uganda | 35 | 1:1,115,408 | 46,348 |
| Kenya | 34 | 1:1,358,232 | 35,498 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okoa (714) may also be a first name.
Okoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okoa is found in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 324,225th most numerous surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 6,342,512 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Okoa live; 79 percent live in Central Africa and 78 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 309,041st most commonly used forename globally, borne by 714 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is held by 908 people, or 1 in 22,873. In Cameroon Okoa is most prevalent in: Centre Region, where 90 percent are found, South Region, where 6 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 3 percent are found. Apart from Cameroon Okoa is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 7 percent are found and Nigeria, where 6 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 Okoa
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