Kouala Surname
Approximately 1,212 people bear this surname
Kouala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 434 | 1:11,496 | 1,522 |
| Ivory Coast | 422 | 1:54,671 | 3,299 |
| Benin | 132 | 1:78,300 | 9,304 |
| Burkina Faso | 129 | 1:142,264 | 3,737 |
| Cameroon | 88 | 1:236,012 | 23,423 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Kouala (119) may also be a first name.
Kouala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouala Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouala occurs most in The Congo. It may appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouala? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 310,758th most frequently used surname internationally, held by around 1 in 6,012,827 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kouala live; 52 percent live in West Africa and 40 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kouala is also the 856,040th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 119 people.
The last name Kouala is most common in The Congo, where it is carried by 434 people, or 1 in 11,496. In The Congo it is most prevalent in: Brazzaville Department, where 57 percent live, Pointe-Noire Department, where 40 percent live and Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 2 percent live. Other than The Congo this last name occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 35 percent live and Benin, where 11 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 Kouala
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