Douye Surname
Approximately 407 people bear this surname
Douye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 375 | 1:472,381 | 23,815 |
| Burkina Faso | 21 | 1:873,910 | 9,338 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Douye (1,939) may also be a first name.
Douye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Douye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Douye is found most frequently in Nigeria. It can also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Douye? popularity and diffusion
The last name Douye is the 717,442nd most common surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 17,905,518 people. The last name Douye occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Douye live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 172,224th most commonly held first name globally It is held by 1,939 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is borne by 375 people, or 1 in 472,381. In Nigeria it is mostly found in: Bayelsa, where 85 percent are found, Delta, where 10 percent are found and Rivers, where 3 percent are found. Not including Nigeria Douye exists in 8 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 5 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, 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 Douye
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