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 is more frequently found in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant: Ouaré. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouare? popularity and diffusion
It is the 81,208th most frequent family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,217,635 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ouare reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 87 percent reside in Mande Africa. It is also the 2,446,817th most frequently occurring forename worldwide, borne by 20 people.
Ouare is most frequently occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 5,901 people, or 1 in 3,110. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Centre-Est Region, where 86 percent live, Centre Region, where 8 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 2 percent live. Without taking into account Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent live and Guinea, where 0 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 Ouare
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