Woka Surname
Approximately 1,522 people bear this surname
Woka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 591 | 1:299,734 | 16,750 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Indonesia | 143 | 1:924,820 | 68,783 |
| Malawi | 131 | 1:130,680 | 14,293 |
| Cameroon | 97 | 1:214,114 | 21,748 |
| DR Congo | 82 | 1:900,970 | 60,382 |
| Papua New Guinea | 41 | 1:198,871 | 27,541 |
| South Africa | 27 | 1:2,006,582 | 90,678 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Kenya | 9 | 1:5,131,100 | 45,516 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
Woka (209) may also be a first name.
Woka Demographics
Woka Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Woka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Woka Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Woka is found most in Nigeria. It may also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Woka click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Woka? popularity and diffusion
Woka is the 258,507th most frequent surname globally, borne by around 1 in 4,788,138 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Woka are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 62 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 625,736th most common first name at a global level, borne by 209 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Nigeria, where it is held by 591 people, or 1 in 299,734. In Nigeria Woka is most common in: Rivers, where 90 percent are found, Bayelsa, where 6 percent are found and Lagos, where 2 percent are found. Not including Nigeria this last name is found in 28 countries. It also occurs in Ghana, where 23 percent are found and Indonesia, where 9 percent are found.
Woka Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Woka surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Woka earn somewhat more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 9.89% more than the national average, earning R 261,132 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
- 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 Woka
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