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
The surname Ouaka occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouaka? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 205,021st most frequently occurring surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 3,598,788 people. The surname Ouaka occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Ouaka live; 83 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ouaka is also the 620,917th most numerous first name throughout the world It is held by 212 people.
Ouaka is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 967 people, or 1 in 23,859. In The Ivory Coast Ouaka is most prevalent in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 22 percent live, Vallée du Bandama District, where 20 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 17 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 29 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 13 percent live.
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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 Ouaka
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