Okota Surname
Approximately 1,264 people bear this surname
Okota Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 951 | 1:77,686 | 9,011 |
| Nigeria | 160 | 1:1,107,142 | 45,738 |
| Kenya | 62 | 1:744,837 | 30,879 |
| Indonesia | 23 | 1:5,749,965 | 259,967 |
| Solomon Islands | 22 | 1:26,365 | 5,164 |
| Uganda | 20 | 1:1,951,964 | 63,898 |
| Poland | 11 | 1:3,455,341 | 126,214 |
| Tanzania | 10 | 1:5,294,161 | 57,086 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
Okota (247) may also be a first name.
Okota Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okota Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okota is borne by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okota? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 300,690th most commonly held family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 5,765,464 people. Okota occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Okota reside; 75 percent reside in Central Africa and 75 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 567,531st most common first name throughout the world, held by 247 people.
Okota is most commonly used in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 951 people, or 1 in 77,686. Other than The DR Congo this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 13 percent are found and Kenya, where 5 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 Okota
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