Opele Surname
Approximately 768 people bear this surname
Opele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 320 | 1:15,591 | 1,900 |
| Nigeria | 179 | 1:989,624 | 41,927 |
| DR Congo | 123 | 1:600,647 | 45,387 |
| Uganda | 63 | 1:619,671 | 32,575 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| Kenya | 20 | 1:2,308,995 | 36,653 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1:905,969 | 94,851 |
| Tanzania | 9 | 1:5,882,401 | 60,754 |
| Russia | 4 | 1:36,030,764 | 577,589 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Opele (98) may also be a first name.
Opele Demographics
Opele Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Opele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Opele Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Opele (Russian: Опеле) is found most frequently in The Congo. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Opele? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 444,536th most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 9,488,992 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Opele live; 62 percent live in Central Africa and 62 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 956,749th most frequent first name in the world, held by 98 people.
The last name is most widely held in The Congo, where it is carried by 320 people, or 1 in 15,591. In The Congo Opele is primarily concentrated in: Plateaux Department, where 60 percent are found, Brazzaville Department, where 39 percent are found and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 1 percent are found. Not including The Congo Opele occurs in 13 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 23 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 16 percent are found.
Opele Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Opele last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Opele Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Opele in the Russian language | ||
| Опеле | opele | - |
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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 Opele
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