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 carried by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okota? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 300,690th most widespread last name globally, held by around 1 in 5,765,464 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Okota reside; 75 percent reside in Central Africa and 75 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Okota is also the 567,531st most widely held first name on earth. It is borne by 247 people.
The surname Okota is most common in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 951 people, or 1 in 77,686. Outside of The DR Congo this surname occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 13 percent live and Kenya, where 5 percent live.
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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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