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
The surname Douye is most common in Nigeria. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Douye? popularity and diffusion
Douye is the 717,442nd most numerous surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 17,905,518 people. The surname Douye occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Douye reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 172,224th most widespread given name worldwide. It is borne by 1,939 people.
The surname is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 375 people, or 1 in 472,381. In Nigeria Douye is primarily concentrated in: Bayelsa, where 85 percent are found, Delta, where 10 percent are found and Rivers, where 3 percent are found. Other than Nigeria this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs 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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