Ouayou Surname
Approximately 315 people bear this surname
Ouayou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 290 | 1:79,556 | 4,347 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Ouayou (85) may also be a first name.
Ouayou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouayou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouayou is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouayou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 862,604th most frequently used family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 23,135,066 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 58 percent of Ouayou live; 55 percent live in West Africa and 51 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ouayou is also the 1,039,322nd most numerous forename throughout the world, borne by 85 people.
The surname is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 290 people, or 1 in 79,556. In The Ivory Coast it is most prevalent in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 50 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 44 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 4 percent are found. Outside of The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 3 percent are found and Morocco, where 3 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 Ouayou
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