Okwudiri Surname

201,090th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,074 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Okwudiri Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Okwudiri Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria2,0611:85,9506,032
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
England21:27,859,030389,889
Iceland21:190,0456,825
Brunei11:418,7313,893
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Senegal11:14,579,34211,705
Spain11:46,752,036156,870

Okwudiri (8,805) may also be a first name.

Okwudiri Last Name Facts

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

The last name Okwudiri is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Okwudiri? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 201,090th most frequent last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 3,513,764 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okwudiri live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 66,678th most widely held forename on earth It is held by 8,805 people.

This last name is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 2,061 people, or 1 in 85,950. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Abia, where 45 percent reside, Rivers, where 16 percent reside and Lagos, where 10 percent reside. Other than Nigeria this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 0 percent reside and Brazil, 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 Okwudiri
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