Kouly Surname
Approximately 132 people bear this surname
Kouly Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 42 | 1:549,315 | 16,834 |
| Kuwait | 29 | 1:131,058 | 14,967 |
| Denmark | 15 | 1:376,314 | 25,792 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Saint Lucia | 4 | 1:44,695 | 2,207 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Kouly (418) may also be a first name.
Kouly Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouly Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kouly (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻟﻲ) is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouly? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,558,593rd most numerous family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 55,208,681 people. The surname Kouly occurs predominantly in Africa, where 51 percent of Kouly reside; 41 percent reside in West Africa and 26 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kouly is also the 420,385th most frequently used first name worldwide, borne by 418 people.
Kouly is most frequently occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 42 people, or 1 in 549,315. In The Ivory Coast Kouly is most frequent in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 55 percent live, Montagnes District, where 21 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 19 percent live. Excluding The Ivory Coast it exists in 20 countries. It is also found in Kuwait, where 22 percent live and Denmark, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouly Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouly in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻟﻲ | kwly | 66.67 |
| ﻗﻠﻲ | qly | 33.33 |
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kouly
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