Kouye Surname
Approximately 1,377 people bear this surname
Kouye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 943 | 1:10,960 | 1,509 |
| Ivory Coast | 219 | 1:105,348 | 5,399 |
| Cameroon | 61 | 1:340,477 | 30,746 |
| Mauritania | 49 | 1:83,569 | 5,424 |
| Niger | 48 | 1:399,834 | 11,128 |
| Papua New Guinea | 43 | 1:189,621 | 26,314 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kouye (161) may also be a first name.
Kouye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kouye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻳﻪ) occurs more in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 280,464th most frequently used family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 5,292,335 people. The last name Kouye occurs mostly in Africa, where 92 percent of Kouye live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 79 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kouye is also the 722,635th most prevalent first name worldwide, held by 161 people.
This surname is most commonly used in Benin, where it is held by 943 people, or 1 in 10,960. In Benin Kouye is primarily found in: Littoral Department, where 26 percent live, Zou Department, where 18 percent live and Ouémé Department, where 17 percent live. Excluding Benin Kouye exists in 12 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 16 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻳﻪ | kwyh | 47.06 |
| ﻛﻮﻱ | kwy | 35.29 |
| ﺧﻮﻱ | khwy | 11.76 |
| ﻛﻮﻳﻰ | kwyy | 5.88 |
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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 Kouye
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