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
Ouare occurs in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Ouaré. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouare? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 81,208th most commonly held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,217,635 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Ouare reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 87 percent reside in Mande Africa. Ouare is also the 2,446,817th most frequently held forename in the world, held by 20 people.
The last name Ouare is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 5,901 people, or 1 in 3,110. In Burkina Faso it is most frequent 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 it is found in 7 countries. It is also common 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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