Nouafo Surname
Approximately 137 people bear this surname
Nouafo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 130 | 1:159,762 | 17,345 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
Nouafo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nouafo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nouafo is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nouafo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Nouafo is the 1,518,885th most commonly held surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 53,193,766 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Nouafo live; 95 percent live in Central Africa and 95 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Nouafo is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 130 people, or 1 in 159,762. In Cameroon Nouafo is primarily concentrated in: Centre Region, where 55 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 32 percent reside and West Region, where 7 percent reside. Barring Cameroon it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 2 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
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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
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