Foua Surname
Approximately 6,669 people bear this surname
Foua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 6,455 | 1:3,574 | 349 |
| Cameroon | 129 | 1:161,001 | 17,453 |
| New Zealand | 34 | 1:133,186 | 15,994 |
| Burkina Faso | 16 | 1:1,147,006 | 10,865 |
| United States | 8 | 1:45,307,367 | 917,113 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Congo | 3 | 1:1,663,032 | 27,638 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Foua (809) may also be a first name.
Foua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Foua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Foua (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻮﻭﺍ) is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also occur as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Foua? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 73,765th most frequently held last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 1,092,749 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 83 percent of Foua live; 81 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 287,448th most numerous forename world-wide It is held by 809 people.
This surname is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 6,455 people, or 1 in 3,574. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 76 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 17 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 2 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast it exists in 17 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 2 percent live and New Zealand, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Foua Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Foua in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻮﻭﺍ | fwwa | 50 |
| ﻓﻮﺍ | fwa | 50 |
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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 Foua
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