Okpuru Surname
Approximately 1,405 people bear this surname
Okpuru Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1,388 | 1:127,624 | 8,339 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
Okpuru (99) may also be a first name.
Okpuru Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okpuru Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okpuru is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okpuru? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 276,073rd most frequently used family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 5,186,865 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okpuru reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okpuru is also the 951,070th most commonly occurring first name globally It is held by 99 people.
The surname Okpuru is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 1,388 people, or 1 in 127,624. In Nigeria Okpuru is mostly concentrated in: Ebonyi, where 82 percent reside, Rivers, where 5 percent reside and Enugu, where 2 percent reside. Besides Nigeria this surname exists in one country. It is also common in England, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Okpuru
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