Kouriye Surname
Approximately 13 people bear this surname
Kouriye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
Kouriye (154) may also be a first name.
Kouriye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouriye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kouriye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﺭﻳﻪ) is most common in Mauritania. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouriye? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kouriye is the 5,391,485th most commonly occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 560,580,455 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 77 percent of Kouriye are found; 77 percent are found in West Africa and 46 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Kouriye is also the 740,891st most commonly occurring first name globally, held by 154 people.
The surname Kouriye is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 682,477. In Mauritania Kouriye is most numerous in: Hodh Chargui Region, where 100 percent live. Outside of Mauritania this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Sweden, where 23 percent live and Benin, where 15 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouriye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouriye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﺭﻳﻪ | kwryh | 62.5 |
| ﻛﻮﺭﻳﺔ | kwryt | 30.36 |
| ﻛﻮﻳﺮﻳﻪ | kwyryh | 1.79 |
| ﺍﻛﻮﻳﺮﻳﺔ | akwyryt | 1.79 |
| ﺍﻟﻜﻮﺭﻳﺔ | alkwryt | 1.79 |
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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 Kouriye
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