Okoroiwu Surname
Approximately 105 people bear this surname
Okoroiwu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 102 | 1:1,736,694 | 63,540 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Okoroiwu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoroiwu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okoroiwu is found most in Nigeria. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoroiwu? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,795,579th most frequently used family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 69,405,199 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Okoroiwu live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 102 people, or 1 in 1,736,694. In Nigeria Okoroiwu is mostly concentrated in: Rivers, where 28 percent reside, Abia, where 21 percent reside and Cross River, where 11 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria Okoroiwu exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Brazil, where 1 percent reside and Kenya, where 1 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
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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 Okoroiwu
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