Oyekanle Surname
Approximately 27 people bear this surname
Oyekanle Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 26 | 1:6,813,183 | 158,601 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Oyekanle Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oyekanle Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oyekanle occurs in Nigeria more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Oyekanle click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oyekanle? popularity and diffusion
The surname Oyekanle is the 3,798,600th most common family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 269,909,108 people. Oyekanle is predominantly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Oyekanle reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most commonly used in Nigeria, where it is borne by 26 people, or 1 in 6,813,183. In Nigeria Oyekanle is most frequent in: Plateau, where 54 percent live, Federal Capital Territory, where 19 percent live and Osun, where 15 percent live. Other than Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in Canada, where 4 percent live.
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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 Oyekanle
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