Ouaka Surname
Approximately 2,025 people bear this surname
Ouaka Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 967 | 1:23,859 | 1,715 |
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| Burkina Faso | 273 | 1:67,224 | 2,596 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| New Caledonia | 62 | 1:4,455 | 817 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Ouaka (212) may also be a first name.
Ouaka Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouaka Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouaka is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouaka? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ouaka is the 205,021st most frequent last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 3,598,788 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Ouaka live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 620,917th most frequently occurring first name at a global level, borne by 212 people.
The surname Ouaka is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 967 people, or 1 in 23,859. In The Ivory Coast Ouaka is most numerous in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 22 percent reside, Vallée du Bandama District, where 20 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 17 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in Chad, where 29 percent reside and Burkina Faso, where 13 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 Ouaka
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