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 surname Noufe is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Noufé. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Noufe? popularity and diffusion
The last name Noufe is the 17,743rd most prevalent surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 233,995 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 97 percent of Noufe live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Noufe is also the 192,246th most prevalent first name internationally, borne by 1,615 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 21,687 people, or 1 in 1,064. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Zanzan District, where 48 percent live, Montagnes District, where 11 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 10 percent live. Apart from The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 30 percent live and France, where 0 percent live.
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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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