Oueda Surname
Approximately 7,078 people bear this surname
Oueda Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 7,008 | 1:2,619 | 354 |
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Syria | 2 | 1:9,650,511 | 17,817 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
The alternate forms: Ouéda (1) are calculated separately.
Oueda (136) may also be a first name.
Oueda Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oueda Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oueda occurs more in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Ouéda. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oueda? popularity and diffusion
The last name Oueda is the 69,915th most frequently held surname on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 1,029,605 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Oueda reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 794,286th most frequently used forename internationally. It is borne by 136 people.
The last name Oueda is most widely held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 7,008 people, or 1 in 2,619. In Burkina Faso Oueda is most numerous in: Centre-Est Region, where 34 percent are found, Centre-Nord Region, where 26 percent are found and Est Region, where 15 percent are found. Outside of Burkina Faso it exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent are found and Egypt, 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 Oueda
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