Aouba Surname
Approximately 602 people bear this surname
Aouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 303 | 1:60,568 | 2,472 |
| Morocco | 239 | 1:144,251 | 25,171 |
| Cameroon | 37 | 1:561,326 | 43,620 |
| Niger | 11 | 1:1,744,729 | 34,351 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Aouba (28) may also be a first name.
Aouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Aouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻮﺑﻪ) has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Aouba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 535,476th most frequently used family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 12,105,558 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Aouba are found; 53 percent are found in West Africa and 45 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,994,417th most frequently held first name in the world, held by 28 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 303 people, or 1 in 60,568. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 47 percent live, Centre-Ouest Region, where 35 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 11 percent live. Not including Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 40 percent live and Cameroon, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Aouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻮﺑﻪ | wbh | 66.67 |
| ﺍﻭﺏ | awb | 16.67 |
| ﺃﻭﺑﻪ | awbh | 16.67 |
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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
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- 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 Aouba
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