Dounla Surname
Approximately 534 people bear this surname
Dounla Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 531 | 1:39,113 | 5,230 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Dounla Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dounla Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Dounla is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Dounla.
How Common Is The Last Name Dounla? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 585,898th most widely held family name internationally, held by around 1 in 13,647,090 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Dounla live; 98 percent live in Central Africa and 97 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
Dounla is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is held by 531 people, or 1 in 39,113. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: Littoral Region, where 43 percent reside, Centre Region, where 29 percent reside and West Region, where 14 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 0 percent reside and France, where 0 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
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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 Dounla
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