Hourey Surname
Approximately 561 people bear this surname
Hourey Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 413 | 1:50,288 | 6,581 |
| Niger | 86 | 1:223,163 | 7,312 |
| Burkina Faso | 62 | 1:296,002 | 5,313 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
Hourey (7,621) may also be a first name.
Hourey Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hourey Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hourey (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻮﺭﻱ, Tibetan: ཧོ་རས།) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Hourey click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hourey? popularity and diffusion
It is the 564,325th most widely held surname globally, borne by around 1 in 12,990,278 people. The surname Hourey occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Hourey live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 42 percent live in Chadic Africa. Hourey is also the 73,394th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 7,621 people.
The surname is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 413 people, or 1 in 50,288. In Cameroon Hourey is most prevalent in: North Region, where 61 percent are found, Far North Region, where 31 percent are found and Adamawa Region, where 8 percent are found. Aside from Cameroon it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 15 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 11 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hourey Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hourey in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཧོ་རས། | horé | - |
| Hourey in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻮﺭﻱ | hwry | 56.25 |
| ﻫﺮﻱ | hry | 25 |
| ﻫﻮﺭﻯ | hwry | 6.25 |
| ﺣﻮﺭﻱ | hwry | 6.25 |
| ﻫﻮﺭﻳﺔ | hwryt | 6.25 |
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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 Hourey
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