Okuje Surname
Approximately 26 people bear this surname
Okuje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 25 | 1:7,085,710 | 162,099 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Okuje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okuje Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okuje is most common in Nigeria. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Okuje.
How Common Is The Last Name Okuje? popularity and diffusion
The surname Okuje is the 3,882,373rd most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 280,290,228 people. The last name Okuje occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Okuje live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 7,085,710. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Delta, where 44 percent live, Benue, where 16 percent live and Kogi, where 16 percent live. Beside Nigeria Okuje is found in one country. It also occurs in Uganda, where 4 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 Okuje
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