Omeokwe Surname
Approximately 447 people bear this surname
Omeokwe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 433 | 1:409,106 | 21,363 |
| United States | 12 | 1:30,204,911 | 765,334 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Omeokwe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Omeokwe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Omeokwe is more frequently found in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Omeokwe? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 669,375th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 16,303,235 people. The surname Omeokwe is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Omeokwe are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Omeokwe is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 433 people, or 1 in 409,106. In Nigeria Omeokwe is most frequent in: Enugu, where 26 percent are found, Abia, where 25 percent are found and Lagos, where 15 percent are found. Aside from Nigeria Omeokwe is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 3 percent are found and England, where 0 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
- 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 Omeokwe
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