Ouah Surname
Approximately 130 people bear this surname
Ouah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 111 | 1:207,849 | 8,785 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Ouah (126) may also be a first name.
Ouah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ouah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻭﺍﻩ) is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Ouah.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouah? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ouah is the 1,573,888th most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 56,058,046 people. The surname Ouah is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Ouah live; 87 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ouah is also the 829,183rd most commonly occurring first name at a global level It is held by 126 people.
This surname is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 111 people, or 1 in 207,849. In The Ivory Coast Ouah is most frequent in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 73 percent reside, Montagnes District, where 15 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 7 percent reside. Other than The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 4 percent reside and Nigeria, where 4 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ouah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ouah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻭﺍﻩ | awah | 60 |
| ﺃﻭﺍﻩ | awah | 40 |
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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 Ouah
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