Koueke Surname
Approximately 326 people bear this surname
Koueke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 257 | 1:40,216 | 5,165 |
| Cameroon | 66 | 1:314,683 | 29,051 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Koueke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koueke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Koueke is found most frequently in Benin. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Koueke? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 842,714th most commonly held last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 22,354,435 people. The surname Koueke is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Koueke live; 79 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Koueke is most common in Benin, where it is borne by 257 people, or 1 in 40,216. In Benin Koueke is mostly concentrated in: Plateau Department, where 86 percent are found, Zou Department, where 10 percent are found and Atlantique Department, where 3 percent are found. Apart from Benin this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 20 percent are found and The United States, 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
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