Kouaye Surname
Approximately 353 people bear this surname
Kouaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 171 | 1:134,919 | 6,497 |
| Cameroon | 118 | 1:176,009 | 18,652 |
| Benin | 53 | 1:195,011 | 18,621 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Kouaye (474) may also be a first name.
Kouaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kouaye is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kouaye.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouaye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kouaye is the 796,486th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 20,644,606 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Kouaye are found; 54 percent are found in West Africa and 37 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kouaye is also the 390,891st most widely held first name at a global level It is held by 474 people.
It is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 171 people, or 1 in 134,919. In The Ivory Coast Kouaye is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 33 percent reside, Bas-Sassandra District, where 27 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 22 percent reside. Barring The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 33 percent reside and Benin, where 15 percent reside.
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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 Kouaye
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