Amouye Surname
Approximately 503 people bear this surname
Amouye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 315 | 1:73,242 | 4,065 |
| Benin | 87 | 1:118,800 | 13,087 |
| Cameroon | 72 | 1:288,459 | 27,220 |
| Niger | 16 | 1:1,199,501 | 25,520 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Amouye (193) may also be a first name.
Amouye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amouye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Amouye is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Amouye.
How Common Is The Last Name Amouye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Amouye is the 613,453rd most frequently occurring last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 14,488,163 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 81 percent of Amouye reside; 66 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Amouye is also the 653,740th most commonly held first name in the world, borne by 193 people.
The last name Amouye is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 315 people, or 1 in 73,242. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Comoé District, where 66 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 28 percent live and Lacs District, where 3 percent live. Beside The Ivory Coast it is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 17 percent live and Cameroon, where 14 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
- 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 Amouye
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