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 last name Okpuru is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okpuru? popularity and diffusion
It is the 276,073rd most commonly used family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 5,186,865 people. Okpuru occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okpuru live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okpuru is also the 951,070th most prevalent forename worldwide, held by 99 people.
The last name Okpuru is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 1,388 people, or 1 in 127,624. In Nigeria Okpuru is mostly concentrated in: Ebonyi, where 82 percent live, Rivers, where 5 percent live and Enugu, where 2 percent live. Outside of Nigeria this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in England, 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 Okpuru
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