Kouwa Surname
Approximately 284 people bear this surname
Kouwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 64 | 1:324,517 | 29,689 |
| Niger | 52 | 1:369,077 | 10,509 |
| Indonesia | 50 | 1:2,644,984 | 153,918 |
| Papua New Guinea | 45 | 1:181,194 | 25,163 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Congo | 10 | 1:498,910 | 11,250 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Kouwa (188) may also be a first name.
Kouwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouwa occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kouwa is the 928,396th most widely held surname at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 25,660,373 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 62 percent of Kouwa live; 39 percent live in Central Africa and 38 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 663,277th most frequently used forename on earth, borne by 188 people.
The last name Kouwa is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 64 people, or 1 in 324,517. In Cameroon Kouwa is most prevalent in: Littoral Region, where 39 percent live, Centre Region, where 27 percent live and West Region, where 19 percent live. Aside from Cameroon it is found in 11 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 18 percent live and Indonesia, where 18 percent live.
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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 Kouwa
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