Koulai Surname
Approximately 6,612 people bear this surname
Koulai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 6,561 | 1:3,516 | 339 |
| Cameroon | 40 | 1:519,227 | 41,500 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
The alternate forms: Koulaï (2) are calculated separately.
Koulai (1,474) may also be a first name.
Koulai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koulai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Koulai is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Koulaï. Click here to see other possible spellings of Koulai.
How Common Is The Last Name Koulai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 74,335th most widely held last name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 1,102,170 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Koulai live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 202,756th most frequently occurring forename on earth It is held by 1,474 people.
The surname Koulai is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 6,561 people, or 1 in 3,516. In The Ivory Coast Koulai is mostly concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 73 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 13 percent reside and Bas-Sassandra District, where 5 percent reside. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent reside and France, where 0 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 Koulai
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