Mourai Surname
Approximately 650 people bear this surname
Mourai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 613 | 1:56,242 | 9,319 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Brazil | 8 | 1:26,759,292 | 405,030 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
The alternate forms: Mouraî (23) & Mouraï (2) are calculated separately.
Mourai (15) may also be a first name.
Mourai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mourai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mourai is found most in Morocco. It may appear in the variant forms: Mouraî or Mouraï. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mourai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mourai is the 504,985th most frequently occurring last name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 11,211,609 people. The last name Mourai occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Mourai reside; 94 percent reside in North Africa and 94 percent reside in Mahgreb. Mourai is also the 2,900,335th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 15 people.
The surname Mourai is most frequently occurring in Morocco, where it is carried by 613 people, or 1 in 56,242. Without taking into account Morocco Mourai exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found and Brazil, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Mourai
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