Okwaje Surname
Approximately 182 people bear this surname
Okwaje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 174 | 1:1,018,062 | 42,870 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Okwaje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okwaje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Okwaje has its highest incidence in Nigeria. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okwaje? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,263,456th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 40,041,461 people. The surname Okwaje occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okwaje reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Okwaje is most widespread in Nigeria, where it is held by 174 people, or 1 in 1,018,062. In Nigeria Okwaje is mostly found in: Delta, where 58 percent are found, Lagos, where 13 percent are found and Benue, where 10 percent are found. Not including Nigeria it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 3 percent are found and Scotland, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Okwaje
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