Okon Surname
Approximately 383,273 people bear this surname
Okon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 374,112 | 1:474 | 54 |
| Ivory Coast | 2,201 | 1:10,482 | 858 |
| Cameroon | 1,882 | 1:11,036 | 1,484 |
| United States | 1,592 | 1:227,675 | 21,993 |
| Germany | 1,040 | 1:77,409 | 9,788 |
| Ghana | 485 | 1:55,713 | 5,980 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Poland | 340 | 1:111,790 | 16,832 |
| England | 308 | 1:180,903 | 16,305 |
| Thailand | 132 | 1:535,139 | 92,379 |
| France | 81 | 1:820,034 | 98,127 |
| Ukraine | 75 | 1:606,969 | 66,274 |
| Argentina | 48 | 1:890,488 | 57,418 |
| Canada | 44 | 1:837,400 | 65,151 |
| Indonesia | 42 | 1:3,148,790 | 173,812 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| Mexico | 34 | 1:3,650,771 | 25,133 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Ireland | 28 | 1:168,176 | 7,397 |
| Uganda | 21 | 1:1,859,013 | 62,128 |
| Liberia | 20 | 1:220,427 | 14,169 |
| Scotland | 19 | 1:281,780 | 13,396 |
| South Africa | 19 | 1:2,851,458 | 109,033 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Czechia | 17 | 1:625,498 | 60,070 |
| Israel | 15 | 1:570,509 | 41,023 |
| Brazil | 15 | 1:14,271,622 | 267,944 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| Norway | 13 | 1:395,560 | 35,657 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| Turkey | 12 | 1:6,485,118 | 119,359 |
| Slovakia | 12 | 1:444,704 | 54,815 |
| Russia | 12 | 1:12,010,255 | 361,204 |
| Spain | 12 | 1:3,896,003 | 72,236 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 1:1,535,198 | 78,311 |
| Philippines | 10 | 1:10,123,822 | 213,993 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Iran | 8 | 1:9,597,816 | 173,045 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 1:1,368,819 | 77,571 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| Gambia | 4 | 1:480,863 | 548 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mongolia | 1 | 1:2,825,289 | 17,010 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
The alternate forms: Okoń (17,627), Okoñ (2), Okón (1) & Okóń (5) are calculated separately.
Okon (123,492) may also be a first name.
Okon Demographics
Average Okon Salary in
United States
$48,689 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Okon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okon Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okon (Russian: Оконь) is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Okoń, Okoñ, Okón or Okóń. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okon? popularity and diffusion
The last name Okon is the 1,401st most prevalent family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 19,014 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okon live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 8,385th most frequent given name world-wide, held by 123,492 people.
Okon is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 374,112 people, or 1 in 474. In Nigeria Okon is primarily concentrated in: Akwa Ibom, where 49 percent reside, Cross River, where 26 percent reside and Lagos, where 4 percent reside. Beside Nigeria Okon exists in 80 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent reside and Cameroon, where 0 percent reside.
Okon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Okon has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Okon last name expanded 15,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Okon Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Okon surname is predominantly Christian (99%) in Nigeria.
In The United States those holding the Okon last name are 35.31% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 88.54% being registered with the political party.
The amount Okon earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 41.18% less than the national average, earning 203,569 kr per year; in United States they earn 12.84% more than the national average, earning $48,689 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.85% less than the national average, earning $48,268 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Okon Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Okon in the Russian language | ||
| Оконь | okon | - |
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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 Okon
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