Okoosi Surname
Approximately 469 people bear this surname
Okoosi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 449 | 1:394,527 | 20,761 |
| England | 15 | 1:3,714,537 | 119,675 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Okoosi (23) may also be a first name.
Okoosi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoosi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okoosi is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoosi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 645,988th most widespread surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 15,538,477 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Okoosi are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 96 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okoosi is also the 2,239,265th most frequently held first name at a global level It is held by 23 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is held by 449 people, or 1 in 394,527. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Lagos, where 51 percent reside, Ogun, where 23 percent reside and Kwara, where 6 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria it is found in 4 countries. It is also found in England, where 3 percent reside and Benin, where 0 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 Okoosi
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