Koury Surname
Approximately 4,789 people bear this surname
Koury Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,098 | 1:116,998 | 12,602 |
| Brazil | 429 | 1:499,008 | 18,824 |
| Dominican Republic | 262 | 1:39,820 | 2,154 |
| Mauritania | 261 | 1:15,689 | 1,482 |
| Canada | 232 | 1:158,817 | 16,066 |
| Egypt | 122 | 1:753,572 | 38,342 |
| France | 114 | 1:582,655 | 77,962 |
| Australia | 42 | 1:642,755 | 44,739 |
| Venezuela | 42 | 1:719,145 | 12,108 |
| South Africa | 33 | 1:1,641,749 | 81,435 |
| Argentina | 28 | 1:1,526,550 | 84,030 |
| Curaçao | 19 | 1:8,276 | 277 |
| Spain | 17 | 1:2,750,120 | 61,567 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| Lebanon | 9 | 1:626,343 | 14,059 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Ivory Coast | 4 | 1:5,767,808 | 55,416 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1:681,988 | 17,017 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
Koury (133) may also be a first name.
Koury Demographics
Average Male Koury Height
175.74 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Koury Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koury Come From? nationality or country of origin
Koury (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﺭﻱ) is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Koury? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 98,941st most commonly used surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 1,521,726 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 81 percent of Koury live; 63 percent live in North America and 60 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 804,402nd most frequently occurring forename throughout the world. It is borne by 133 people.
This surname is most commonly used in The United States, where it is carried by 3,098 people, or 1 in 116,998. In The United States it is most frequent in: Nevada, where 14 percent reside, California, where 12 percent reside and North Carolina, where 5 percent reside. Not including The United States this surname exists in 47 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 9 percent reside and The Dominican Republic, where 5 percent reside.
Koury Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Koury last name are 12.3% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 59.07% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Koury earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 765.32% more than the national average, earning R 2,056,340 per year; in United States they earn 12.63% more than the national average, earning $48,597 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.81% more than the national average, earning $55,550 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Koury Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Koury in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﺭﻱ | kwry | 69.07 |
| ﺍﻟﻜﻮﺭﻱ | alkwry | 15.46 |
| ﻛﻮﺭﻯ | kwry | 8.25 |
| ﺍﻟﻜﻮﺭﻯ | alkwry | 4.12 |
| ﺧﻮﺭﻱ | khwry | 1.03 |
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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 Koury
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