Avouka Surname
Approximately 553 people bear this surname
Avouka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 530 | 1:1,414 | 208 |
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Avouka (72) may also be a first name.
Avouka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Avouka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Avouka is carried by more people in Comoros than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Avouka? popularity and diffusion
The surname Avouka is the 570,540th most commonly held family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 13,178,202 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Avouka live; 96 percent live in East Africa and 96 percent live in Afro-Islamic Indian Ocean. Avouka is also the 1,143,416th most commonly occurring first name on earth, borne by 72 people.
The surname is most widely held in Comoros, where it is borne by 530 people, or 1 in 1,414. Outside of Comoros this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 3 percent are found and Nigeria, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Avouka
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