Oualou Surname
Approximately 114 people bear this surname
Oualou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 97 | 1:237,848 | 9,622 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Oualou (69) may also be a first name.
Oualou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oualou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oualou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﺍﻟﻮ) is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Oualou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oualou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,710,039th most numerous family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 63,925,841 people. The last name Oualou is predominantly found in Africa, where 58 percent of Oualou live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 27 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Oualou is also the 1,171,416th most widely held first name globally. It is borne by 69 people.
This last name is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 97 people, or 1 in 237,848. In The Ivory Coast it is most common in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 46 percent reside, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 22 percent reside and Lacs District, where 16 percent reside. Besides The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 8 percent reside and Senegal, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oualou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oualou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﺍﻟﻮ | walw | - |
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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 Oualou
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