Kouay Surname
Approximately 391 people bear this surname
Kouay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 375 | 1:91,936 | 15,801 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kouay (16) may also be a first name.
Kouay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouay Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouay is found most in Morocco. It may also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouay? popularity and diffusion
It is the 738,530th most widely held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 18,638,225 people. The last name Kouay occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Kouay live; 96 percent live in North Africa and 96 percent live in Mahgreb. Kouay is also the 2,786,762nd most frequently used first name throughout the world. It is borne by 16 people.
The last name Kouay is most frequently occurring in Morocco, where it is held by 375 people, or 1 in 91,936. Outside of Morocco this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Canada, where 2 percent are found and France, where 1 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
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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 Kouay
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