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
Aouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻮﺑﻪ) is borne by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Aouba? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 535,476th most widely held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 12,105,558 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Aouba live; 53 percent live in West Africa and 45 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Aouba is also the 1,994,417th most frequent first name internationally, held by 28 people.
Aouba is most common in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 303 people, or 1 in 60,568. In Burkina Faso it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 47 percent live, Centre-Ouest Region, where 35 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 11 percent live. Barring Burkina Faso it occurs in 12 countries. It is also common 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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