Houila Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Houila Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 48 | 1:432,689 | 36,488 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Houila Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houila Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Houila is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Houila click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Houila? popularity and diffusion
Houila is the 2,746,821st most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Houila live; 94 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Chadic Africa.
The surname Houila is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 48 people, or 1 in 432,689. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 94 percent live, Centre Region, where 2 percent live and North Region, where 2 percent live. Besides Cameroon it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 2 percent live and Niger, where 2 percent live.
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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 Houila
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