Okweye Surname
Approximately 636 people bear this surname
Okweye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 629 | 1:281,626 | 15,903 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Okweye (25) may also be a first name.
Okweye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okweye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okweye is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Okweye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 513,430th most frequently used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 11,458,406 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okweye are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Okweye is also the 2,136,160th most widespread first name on earth, borne by 25 people.
It is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is held by 629 people, or 1 in 281,626. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Delta, where 63 percent live, Lagos, where 13 percent live and Edo, where 12 percent live. Excluding Nigeria it occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent live and England, where 0 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 Okweye
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