Okyere Surname
Approximately 76,049 people bear this surname
Okyere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 74,744 | 1:362 | 39 |
| England | 435 | 1:128,087 | 12,755 |
| United States | 417 | 1:869,206 | 65,973 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| Canada | 90 | 1:409,395 | 36,056 |
| Netherlands | 31 | 1:544,748 | 49,659 |
| Nigeria | 31 | 1:5,714,283 | 142,531 |
| Germany | 10 | 1:8,050,546 | 248,660 |
| South Africa | 9 | 1:6,019,745 | 157,966 |
| Sweden | 9 | 1:1,094,084 | 81,336 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| Wales | 8 | 1:386,816 | 19,671 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Scotland | 6 | 1:892,303 | 28,047 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Iceland | 6 | 1:63,348 | 4,218 |
| Norway | 5 | 1:1,028,457 | 61,363 |
| Liberia | 5 | 1:881,707 | 33,815 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
Okyere (6,059) may also be a first name.
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Okyere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okyere Come From? nationality or country of origin
Okyere is found in Ghana more than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okyere? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 7,474th most frequently occurring surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 95,827 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Okyere live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 85,136th most commonly held first name in the world. It is borne by 6,059 people.
The last name Okyere is most commonly used in Ghana, where it is carried by 74,744 people, or 1 in 362. Aside from Ghana this surname occurs in 44 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Okyere Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Okyere surname are 41.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 95% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Okyere earn in different countries varies markedly. In Norway they earn 31.96% less than the national average, earning 235,465 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 9.71% less than the national average, earning R 214,560 per year; in United States they earn 9.19% more than the national average, earning $47,113 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.27% less than the national average, earning $44,583 CAD 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 Okyere
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