Okpai Surname
Approximately 413 people bear this surname
Okpai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 397 | 1:446,203 | 22,838 |
| Benin | 9 | 1:1,148,400 | 50,768 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
The alternate forms: Okpaï (1) are calculated separately.
Okpai (63) may also be a first name.
Okpai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okpai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okpai is found in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Okpaï. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okpai? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 709,895th most common last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 17,645,390 people. The surname Okpai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Okpai live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,234,572nd most frequent first name internationally It is held by 63 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 397 people, or 1 in 446,203. In Nigeria it is most numerous in: Abia, where 20 percent live, Ebonyi, where 18 percent live and Rivers, where 13 percent live. Aside from Nigeria it is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 2 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 1 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 Okpai
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