Ouami Surname
Approximately 495 people bear this surname
Ouami Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 477 | 1:72,277 | 12,260 |
| Burkina Faso | 10 | 1:1,835,210 | 14,348 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
Ouami (40) may also be a first name.
Ouami Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouami Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ouami is found most frequently in Morocco. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouami? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 620,716th most numerous family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 14,722,315 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Ouami live; 97 percent live in North Africa and 97 percent live in Mahgreb. Ouami is also the 1,614,485th most widely held first name in the world, held by 40 people.
Ouami is most frequent in Morocco, where it is borne by 477 people, or 1 in 72,277. Barring Morocco this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 2 percent reside and Algeria, where 0 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 Ouami
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