Mouye Surname
Approximately 62 people bear this surname
Mouye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 43 | 1:536,540 | 16,589 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Mouye (763) may also be a first name.
Mouye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mouye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mouye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻮﻳﺎ) is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mouye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,436,415th most widespread family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 117,541,063 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Mouye live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 77 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 297,279th most numerous given name on earth. It is borne by 763 people.
The surname Mouye is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 43 people, or 1 in 536,540. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Lagunes District, where 100 percent live. Beside The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 13 percent live and Benin, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mouye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mouye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻮﻳﺎ | mwya | 16.67 |
| ﻣﻮﻱ | mwy | 16.67 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﻪ | amyh | 16.67 |
| ﻣﻴﻪ | myh | 16.67 |
| ﺍﻣﻲ | amy | 16.67 |
| ﻣﻲ | my | 16.67 |
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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 Mouye
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