Kouga Surname
Approximately 406 people bear this surname
Kouga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 187 | 1:111,065 | 12,922 |
| Papua New Guinea | 103 | 1:79,162 | 10,424 |
| Benin | 81 | 1:127,600 | 13,832 |
| Niger | 17 | 1:1,128,942 | 24,295 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 1:3,295,890 | 46,139 |
| Japan | 5 | 1:25,568,859 | 50,629 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
Kouga (169) may also be a first name.
Kouga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouga Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouga is found most in Cameroon. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouga? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 718,674th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 17,949,620 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 72 percent of Kouga live; 40 percent live in West Africa and 32 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 703,581st most frequently held forename world-wide, borne by 169 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 187 people, or 1 in 111,065. In Cameroon Kouga is primarily found in: Littoral Region, where 37 percent reside, Far North Region, where 24 percent reside and West Region, where 13 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this last name is found in 11 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 25 percent reside and Benin, where 20 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 Kouga
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