Ouare Surname
Approximately 5,985 people bear this surname
Ouare Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 5,901 | 1:3,110 | 398 |
| Ivory Coast | 61 | 1:378,217 | 13,194 |
| Guinea | 9 | 1:1,314,869 | 1,461 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
The alternate forms: Ouaré (3) are calculated separately.
Ouare (20) may also be a first name.
Ouare Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouare Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ouare occurs more in Burkina Faso more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Ouaré. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouare? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ouare is the 81,208th most frequently occurring surname in the world, held by around 1 in 1,217,635 people. The last name Ouare is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ouare live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 87 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 2,446,817th most frequent first name world-wide. It is borne by 20 people.
Ouare is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 5,901 people, or 1 in 3,110. In Burkina Faso it is mostly found in: Centre-Est Region, where 86 percent are found, Centre Region, where 8 percent are found and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 2 percent are found. Without taking into account Burkina Faso this surname is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found and Guinea, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Ouare
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