Ouele Surname
Approximately 1,262 people bear this surname
Ouele Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 888 | 1:25,981 | 1,826 |
| Burkina Faso | 225 | 1:81,565 | 2,865 |
| Benin | 129 | 1:80,121 | 9,489 |
| Congo | 10 | 1:498,910 | 11,250 |
| France | 8 | 1:8,302,840 | 321,660 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Ouele (998) may also be a first name.
Ouele Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouele Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouele is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouele? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 301,076th most commonly held last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 5,774,601 people. The last name Ouele occurs predominantly in Africa, where 90 percent of Ouele live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ouele is also the 254,712th most widely held given name globally. It is borne by 998 people.
The surname Ouele is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 888 people, or 1 in 25,981. In The Ivory Coast Ouele is most prevalent in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 44 percent live, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 14 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 18 percent live and Benin, where 10 percent live.
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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 Ouele
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