Noufe Surname
Approximately 31,144 people bear this surname
Noufe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 21,687 | 1:1,064 | 104 |
| Burkina Faso | 9,428 | 1:1,947 | 281 |
| France | 11 | 1:6,038,429 | 280,838 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Noufé (12) are calculated separately.
Noufe (1,615) may also be a first name.
Noufe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Noufe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Noufe is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may also appear as: Noufé. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Noufe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Noufe is the 17,743rd most commonly held last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 233,995 people. The last name Noufe occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Noufe reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 192,246th most commonly used first name internationally, held by 1,615 people.
The last name is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 21,687 people, or 1 in 1,064. In The Ivory Coast Noufe is primarily concentrated in: Zanzan District, where 48 percent reside, Montagnes District, where 11 percent reside and Bas-Sassandra District, where 10 percent reside. Other than The Ivory Coast Noufe occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 30 percent reside and France, where 0 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Noufe
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