Ioura Surname
Approximately 397 people bear this surname
Ioura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 395 | 1:48,587 | 2,448 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Ioura (215) may also be a first name.
Ioura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ioura Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ioura is most common in Niger. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ioura? popularity and diffusion
It is the 730,373rd most frequently occurring family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 18,356,539 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ioura are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 616,131st most frequently occurring given name in the world, held by 215 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Niger, where it is held by 395 people, or 1 in 48,587. In Niger it is primarily concentrated in: Zinder Region, where 64 percent are found and Diffa Region, where 36 percent are found. Aside from Niger this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, 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 Ioura
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