Okoyi Surname
Approximately 425 people bear this surname
Okoyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 256 | 1:691,964 | 32,018 |
| Congo | 85 | 1:58,695 | 5,228 |
| Uganda | 39 | 1:1,001,007 | 43,411 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
Okoyi (28) may also be a first name.
Okoyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okoyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okoyi is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Okoyi.
How Common Is The Last Name Okoyi? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okoyi is the 694,796th most frequently held family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 17,147,167 people. The last name Okoyi is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Okoyi reside; 60 percent reside in West Africa and 60 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,994,417th most commonly occurring given name at a global level, borne by 28 people.
Okoyi is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is held by 256 people, or 1 in 691,964. In Nigeria Okoyi is mostly found in: Ebonyi, where 32 percent live, Bayelsa, where 15 percent live and Abia, where 9 percent live. Besides Nigeria this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also common in The Congo, where 20 percent live and Uganda, where 9 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 Okoyi
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