Amoua Surname
Approximately 678 people bear this surname
Amoua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 550 | 1:41,948 | 2,699 |
| Benin | 78 | 1:132,508 | 14,244 |
| Cameroon | 37 | 1:561,326 | 43,620 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Amoua (497) may also be a first name.
Amoua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amoua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amoua is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Amoua.
How Common Is The Last Name Amoua? popularity and diffusion
It is the 488,996th most numerous family name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,748,593 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 70 percent of Amoua reside; 64 percent reside in West Africa and 57 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Amoua is also the 380,582nd most numerous first name on earth, held by 497 people.
The surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 550 people, or 1 in 41,948. In The Ivory Coast Amoua is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 34 percent reside, Comoé District, where 23 percent reside and Lacs District, where 18 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 12 percent reside and Cameroon, where 5 percent reside.
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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 Amoua
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