Okunoye Surname

130,280th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,473 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Okunoye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okunoye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria3,4341:51,5853,961
United States131:27,881,456736,413
Qatar61:393,00055,922
England51:11,143,612252,590
Finland41:1,374,17650,379
Scotland31:1,784,60641,943
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
France11:66,422,722504,397
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Wales11:3,094,53244,023

Okunoye (85) may also be a first name.

Okunoye Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Okunoye Come From? nationality or country of origin

Okunoye is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Okunoye? popularity and diffusion

It is the 130,280th most commonly used last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 2,098,343 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Okunoye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okunoye is also the 1,039,322nd most frequently held forename world-wide It is held by 85 people.

The surname is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 3,434 people, or 1 in 51,585. In Nigeria Okunoye is most numerous in: Osun, where 22 percent reside, Oyo, where 18 percent reside and Ondo, where 14 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this surname occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 0 percent reside and Qatar, where 0 percent reside.

Okunoye Last Name Statistics demography

Okunoye earn a lot less than the average income. In United States they earn 45.83% less than the national average, earning $23,375 USD per year.

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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 Okunoye
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