Noufo Surname

1,348,199th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 165 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Lebanon

Noufo Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Noufo Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast901:256,34710,121
Lebanon491:115,0436,418
Cameroon231:903,00360,285
Burkina Faso21:9,176,05023,741
Togo11:7,247,76812,049

Noufo (1,613) may also be a first name.

Noufo Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Noufo Come From? nationality or country of origin

Noufo is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Noufo? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,348,199th most frequently occurring surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 44,166,945 people. The surname Noufo is primarily found in Africa, where 53 percent of Noufo live; 39 percent live in West Africa and 37 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 192,376th most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 1,613 people.

The surname Noufo is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 90 people, or 1 in 256,347. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Comoé District, where 34 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 32 percent live and Savanes District, where 17 percent live. Apart from The Ivory Coast it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Lebanon, where 30 percent live and Cameroon, where 14 percent live.

Noufo Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Noufo surname is predominantly Syriac Orthodox (50%) in Lebanon.

Phonetically Similar Names

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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 Noufo
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