Kouela Surname
Approximately 345 people bear this surname
Kouela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 262 | 1:70,046 | 2,651 |
| Congo | 78 | 1:63,963 | 5,656 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Kouela (17) may also be a first name.
Kouela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouela Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouela is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kouela click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouela? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 809,613th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 21,123,321 people. The surname Kouela is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kouela live; 77 percent live in West Africa and 76 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequently occurring first name globally, held by 17 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 262 people, or 1 in 70,046. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Est Region, where 69 percent live, Centre Region, where 24 percent live and Centre-Est Region, where 3 percent live. Apart from Burkina Faso this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in The Congo, where 23 percent live and Benin, 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 Kouela
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