Okumah Surname
Approximately 1,107 people bear this surname
Okumah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1,039 | 1:26,006 | 3,108 |
| Nigeria | 60 | 1:2,952,379 | 92,303 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Okumah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okumah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okumah is held by more people in Ghana than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okumah? popularity and diffusion
Okumah is the 333,705th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 6,583,149 people. Okumah is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Okumah are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Okumah is most frequently held in Ghana, where it is borne by 1,039 people, or 1 in 26,006. Not including Ghana this surname is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 5 percent reside and England, where 0 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
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- 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 Okumah
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