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
The surname Ouele occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouele? popularity and diffusion
Ouele is the 301,076th most commonly held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 5,774,601 people. The surname Ouele occurs predominantly in Africa, where 90 percent of Ouele reside; 89 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ouele is also the 254,712th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world, borne by 998 people.
It is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 888 people, or 1 in 25,981. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 44 percent live, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 14 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast this surname exists 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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