Kourba Surname
Approximately 104 people bear this surname
Kourba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 94 | 1:195,235 | 4,316 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Kourba (70) may also be a first name.
Kourba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kourba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kourba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﺏ) is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It may occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kourba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kourba is the 1,806,862nd most frequently used surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 70,072,557 people. The last name Kourba occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kourba reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,162,016th most common first name in the world It is held by 70 people.
Kourba is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 195,235. In Burkina Faso Kourba is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 97 percent live, Centre-Nord Region, where 1 percent live and Centre-Sud Region, where 1 percent live. Not including Burkina Faso this surname exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 4 percent live and Benin, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kourba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kourba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﺏ | krb | - |
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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 Kourba
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