Oseke Surname
Approximately 850 people bear this surname
Oseke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 689 | 1:257,101 | 14,805 |
| DR Congo | 96 | 1:769,579 | 54,223 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Uganda | 12 | 1:3,253,273 | 85,117 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
Oseke (87) may also be a first name.
Oseke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oseke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Oseke is found most in Nigeria. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oseke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Oseke is the 410,688th most frequent family name globally, borne by around 1 in 8,573,583 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Oseke are found; 81 percent are found in West Africa and 81 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,024,927th most commonly occurring forename worldwide, borne by 87 people.
Oseke is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 689 people, or 1 in 257,101. In Nigeria it is mostly concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 37 percent are found, Delta, where 19 percent are found and Lagos, where 7 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name occurs in 11 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 11 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 3 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 Oseke
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