Okourou Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Okourou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 75 | 1:66,521 | 5,787 |
| Benin | 28 | 1:369,129 | 27,947 |
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 1:3,295,890 | 46,139 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
Okourou (184) may also be a first name.
Okourou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okourou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okourou is found most in The Congo. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Okourou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okourou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,504,764th most widespread surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 52,428,388 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Okourou live; 71 percent live in Central Africa and 71 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 671,014th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world It is held by 184 people.
Okourou is most frequently used in The Congo, where it is borne by 75 people, or 1 in 66,521. In The Congo it is mostly concentrated in: Brazzaville Department, where 92 percent are found, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 7 percent are found and Plateaux Department, where 1 percent are found. Apart from The Congo it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 20 percent are found and Cameroon, where 14 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 Okourou
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