The baby name Okoye is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced oh-KOH-yeh (IPA: /oˈkɔjɛ/).
Okoye is Igbo in Origin.
The baby name Okoye is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced oh-KOH-yeh (IPA: /oˈkɔjɛ/).
Okoye is Igbo in Origin.
Okoye (oh-KOH-yeh) is an Igbo name from southeastern Nigeria. It derives from Oye - also called Orie - one of the four traditional Igbo market days; the Ok-/Oka- prefix marks a birth on that day. The meaning is “born on Oye (Orie) day,” commonly for a male child, and it evokes the precolonial Igbo calendar and the social life organized around periodic markets.
Used chiefly as a lineage surname, Okoye also occurs as a masculine given name, especially in Anambra and the Nri cultural area, and it has traveled widely with the Igbo diaspora. Colonial-era spelling conventions fixed the now-standard form Okoye. Close variants and dialectal equivalents include Okorie and Okoli; related market-day counterparts are Okafor (Afor), Okeke (Eke), Okonkwo (Nkwo), and Nwoye (“child of Oye”).
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO | 0 | #77 | 1 | 2,729 | |
| QA | 0 | #106 | 1 | 7,011 | |
| NG | 0 | #177 | 89 | 5,926 | |
| AO | Boys | 0 | #246 | 4 | 5,568 |
| NG | Girls | 0 | #247 | 1,156 | 15,093 |
| JP | Boys | 0 | #301 | 3 | 7,909 |
| NG | Boys | 0 | #307 | 1,505 | 16,906 |
| CN | Boys | 0 | #329 | 3 | 9,639 |
| GH | Girls | 0 | #337 | 1 | 6,973 |
| PL | Boys | 0 | #340 | 1 | 6,459 |
| GH | Boys | 0 | #359 | 3 | 8,138 |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #424 | 1 | 15,987 |
| SD | Boys | 0 | #466 | 1 | 10,523 |
| ZA | 0 | #474 | 1 | 14,421 | |
| CM | Boys | 0 | #536 | 15 | 12,054 |
| CM | Girls | 0 | #555 | 6 | 11,671 |
| LY | 0 | #555 | 5 | 12,703 | |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #596 | 2 | 20,968 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #742 | 2 | 18,093 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #925 | 1 | 15,035 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,081 | 12 | 22,615 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #1,152 | 1 | 16,140 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,234 | 3 | 25,928 |
| TR | 0 | #1,252 | 3 | 19,440 | |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,265 | 8 | 25,619 |
Okoye is popular in 17 countries — most recent births per country:
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