Ouela Surname
Approximately 79 people bear this surname
Ouela Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 65 | 1:354,942 | 12,641 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
Ouela (88) may also be a first name.
Ouela Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouela Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouela is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouela? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ouela is the 2,121,169th most commonly occurring surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 92,247,417 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 78 percent of Ouela live; 76 percent live in West Africa and 71 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,017,994th most commonly occurring first name in the world, borne by 88 people.
This surname is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 65 people, or 1 in 354,942. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 80 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 12 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 2 percent are found. Barring The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 11 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 4 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 Ouela
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