Kouve Surname
Approximately 757 people bear this surname
Kouve Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 730 | 1:28,451 | 3,855 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Kouve (913) may also be a first name.
Kouve Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouve Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kouve (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻑ) is found most in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouve? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 449,465th most frequently occurring last name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 9,626,877 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kouve reside; 96 percent reside in West Africa and 92 percent reside in Chadic Africa. It is also the 268,345th most widespread first name globally. It is borne by 913 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 730 people, or 1 in 28,451. In Cameroon Kouve is most common in: Far North Region, where 95 percent live, North Region, where 3 percent live and Littoral Region, where 1 percent live. Outside of Cameroon this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent live and Mauritania, where 0 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouve Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouve in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻑ | kwf | - |
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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 Kouve
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