Okoafor Surname
Approximately 1,659 people bear this surname
Okoafor Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,646 | 1:107,620 | 7,198 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Okoafor (164) may also be a first name.
Okoafor Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoafor Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okoafor is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Okoafor.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoafor? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okoafor is the 240,995th most frequently used last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 4,392,734 people. The surname Okoafor occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Okoafor are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 100 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okoafor is also the 715,247th most widespread first name at a global level It is held by 164 people.
The surname Okoafor is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 1,646 people, or 1 in 107,620. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Abia, where 44 percent live, Enugu, where 15 percent live and Ebonyi, where 10 percent live. Besides Nigeria Okoafor occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 percent live.
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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 Okoafor
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