Ogoua Surname
Approximately 340 people bear this surname
Ogoua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 304 | 1:75,892 | 4,179 |
| Benin | 35 | 1:295,303 | 24,440 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Ogoua (295) may also be a first name.
Ogoua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ogoua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ogoua occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ogoua? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 818,364th most commonly used last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 21,433,959 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 68 percent of Ogoua reside; 68 percent reside in West Africa and 65 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 513,559th most widely held first name in the world, held by 295 people.
Ogoua is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 304 people, or 1 in 75,892. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Lagunes District, where 46 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 36 percent reside and Comoé District, where 9 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 10 percent reside and Ethiopia, 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ogoua
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