Okowe Surname
Approximately 161 people bear this surname
Okowe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 143 | 1:1,238,761 | 49,638 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Okowe (23) may also be a first name.
Okowe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okowe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okowe is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okowe? popularity and diffusion
Okowe is the 1,369,340th most frequently held surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 45,264,260 people. The surname Okowe is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Okowe live; 90 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most common first name throughout the world, held by 23 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is carried by 143 people, or 1 in 1,238,761. In Nigeria Okowe is most frequent in: Delta, where 48 percent are found, Plateau, where 10 percent are found and Edo, where 9 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent are found and Benin, where 1 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 Okowe
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