Kouai Surname
Approximately 2,650 people bear this surname
Kouai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,623 | 1:8,796 | 742 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
The alternate forms: Kouaï (1) are calculated separately.
Kouai (172) may also be a first name.
Kouai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kouai occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Kouaï. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouai? popularity and diffusion
Kouai is the 163,813th most frequent surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 2,750,017 people. Kouai is predominantly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Kouai are found; 77 percent are found in West Africa and 59 percent are found in Mande Africa. Kouai is also the 696,764th most widespread first name worldwide It is held by 172 people.
The surname is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 2,623 people, or 1 in 8,796. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 69 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 22 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 4 percent are found. Other than The Ivory Coast Kouai occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 0 percent are found and The United States, 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 Kouai
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