Ouaba Surname
Approximately 2,050 people bear this surname
Ouaba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,807 | 1:10,156 | 924 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Niger | 51 | 1:376,314 | 10,650 |
| Benin | 31 | 1:333,407 | 26,304 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Ouaba (52) may also be a first name.
Ouaba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouaba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ouaba is most common in Burkina Faso. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouaba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 203,032nd most frequently used surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 3,554,900 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ouaba live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 89 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,381,723rd most commonly held forename in the world, borne by 52 people.
The surname is most frequently held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 1,807 people, or 1 in 10,156. In Burkina Faso Ouaba is most common in: Est Region, where 87 percent reside, Sahel Region, where 9 percent reside and Centre Region, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Burkina Faso this last name is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 7 percent reside and Niger, where 2 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 Ouaba
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