Fouché Surname
Approximately 4,766 people bear this surname
Fouché Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4,453 | 1:12,167 | 1,517 |
| France | 250 | 1:265,691 | 40,939 |
| Belgium | 13 | 1:884,357 | 69,774 |
| United States | 12 | 1:30,204,911 | 765,334 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Czechia | 3 | 1:3,544,490 | 144,714 |
| Haiti | 2 | 1:5,341,954 | 21,336 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1:681,988 | 17,017 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
The alternate forms: Fouche (14,080) & Fouchè (6) are calculated separately.
Fouché (16) may also be a first name.
Fouché Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fouché Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Fouché is found most frequently in South Africa. It may also occur as: Fouche or Fouchè. For other possible spellings of Fouché click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Fouché? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 99,341st most frequently occurring family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 1,529,070 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 93 percent of Fouché live; 93 percent live in Southern Africa and 93 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Fouché is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly held first name internationally It is held by 16 people.
This surname is most numerous in South Africa, where it is carried by 4,453 people, or 1 in 12,167. In South Africa Fouché is primarily found in: Gauteng, where 33 percent are found, Western Cape, where 15 percent are found and North West, where 13 percent are found. Beside South Africa it is found in 22 countries. It also occurs in France, where 5 percent are found and Belgium, where 0 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 Fouché
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