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 surname Kouai occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Kouaï. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouai? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kouai is the 163,813th most prevalent last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 2,750,017 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 78 percent of Kouai reside; 77 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Mande Africa. It is also the 696,764th most commonly occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 172 people.
The surname is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 2,623 people, or 1 in 8,796. In The Ivory Coast Kouai is mostly concentrated in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 69 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 22 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 4 percent live. Outside of The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 7 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 0 percent live and The United States, where 0 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
- 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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