Ouaya Surname
Approximately 506 people bear this surname
Ouaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 204 | 1:113,094 | 5,698 |
| Morocco | 170 | 1:202,801 | 34,956 |
| Congo | 125 | 1:39,913 | 3,755 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Ouaya (118) may also be a first name.
Ouaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ouaya is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Ouaya click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouaya? popularity and diffusion
Ouaya is the 610,848th most commonly occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 14,402,265 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Ouaya are found; 34 percent are found in North Africa and 34 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 859,937th most widely held forename in the world, borne by 118 people.
This surname is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 204 people, or 1 in 113,094. In The Ivory Coast Ouaya is most common in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 70 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 21 percent are found and Montagnes District, where 9 percent are found. Beside The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 34 percent are found and The Congo, where 25 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 Ouaya
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