Nouria Surname
Approximately 211 people bear this surname
Nouria Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 167 | 1:70,861 | 761 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Comoros | 4 | 1:187,381 | 421 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Nouria (36,606) may also be a first name.
Nouria Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nouria Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nouria (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻮﺭﻳﻪ) is most common in Guinea. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Nouria? popularity and diffusion
Nouria is the 1,140,742nd most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 34,538,132 people. The last name Nouria occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nouria are found; 89 percent are found in West Africa and 79 percent are found in Mande Africa. It is also the 23,881st most commonly occurring forename worldwide, borne by 36,606 people.
The surname Nouria is most commonly held in Guinea, where it is borne by 167 people, or 1 in 70,861. In Guinea it is most numerous in: Kankan Region, where 60 percent live and Conakry Region, where 40 percent live. Barring Guinea this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 6 percent live and Morocco, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nouria Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nouria in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻮﺭﻳﻪ | nwryh | - |
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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 Nouria
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