Ocheyo Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Ocheyo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 35 | 1:5,061,222 | 131,727 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ocheyo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ocheyo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ocheyo is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ocheyo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ocheyo is the 3,141,416th most frequently held last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 186,860,152 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Ocheyo reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Ocheyo is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 35 people, or 1 in 5,061,222. In Nigeria Ocheyo is mostly concentrated in: Kogi, where 80 percent are found and Benue, where 20 percent are found. Barring Nigeria this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 5 percent are found and Kenya, 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 Ocheyo
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