Okoni Surname
Approximately 1,637 people bear this surname
Okoni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,098 | 1:161,332 | 10,108 |
| Ivory Coast | 301 | 1:76,649 | 4,215 |
| Congo | 152 | 1:32,823 | 3,263 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Benin | 26 | 1:397,523 | 29,143 |
| Cameroon | 15 | 1:1,384,605 | 80,726 |
| Uganda | 9 | 1:4,337,698 | 99,715 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Okoni (281) may also be a first name.
Okoni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoni Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okoni is found most in Nigeria. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoni? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 243,551st most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 4,451,769 people. The last name Okoni occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Okoni live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okoni is also the 528,876th most frequently used forename at a global level It is held by 281 people.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,098 people, or 1 in 161,332. In Nigeria Okoni is most frequent in: Cross River, where 25 percent are found, Rivers, where 14 percent are found and Ebonyi, where 10 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria Okoni occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 18 percent are found and The Congo, where 9 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 Okoni
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