Kouya Surname
Approximately 6,369 people bear this surname
Kouya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 5,131 | 1:4,496 | 416 |
| Cameroon | 747 | 1:27,803 | 3,775 |
| Gabon | 202 | 1:9,352 | 1,744 |
| Niger | 140 | 1:137,086 | 5,158 |
| Benin | 51 | 1:202,659 | 19,139 |
| Papua New Guinea | 37 | 1:220,371 | 30,351 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| India | 7 | 1:109,580,769 | 786,157 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Kouya (3,243) may also be a first name.
Kouya Demographics
Average Kouya Salary in
United States
$29,906 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kouya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kouya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻳﻪ) is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouya? popularity and diffusion
It is the 76,889th most frequently used last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 1,144,221 people. The last name Kouya is predominantly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Kouya live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 125,835th most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 3,243 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 5,131 people, or 1 in 4,496. In The Ivory Coast it is most common in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 55 percent live, Montagnes District, where 27 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 11 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast Kouya exists in 22 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 12 percent live and Gabon, where 3 percent live.
Kouya Last Name Statistics demography
Kouya earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 30.69% less than the national average, earning $29,906 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻳﻪ | kwyh | 50 |
| ﺧﻮﻳﻪ | khwyh | 25 |
| ﻛﻮﻱ | kwy | 25 |
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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 Kouya
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