Okooma Surname
Approximately 24 people bear this surname
Okooma Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Okooma Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okooma Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okooma is carried by more people in Uganda than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okooma? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,034,050th most numerous last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 303,647,746 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Okooma are found; 96 percent are found in East Africa and 96 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently held in Uganda, where it is carried by 23 people, or 1 in 1,697,360. In Uganda Okooma is mostly found in: Serere District, where 87 percent reside, Ngora District, where 9 percent reside and Kampala District, where 4 percent reside. Barring Uganda it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 4 percent reside.
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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 Okooma
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