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 held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Ouele.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouele? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 301,076th most numerous family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 5,774,601 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Ouele live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 254,712th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 998 people.
The surname Ouele is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 888 people, or 1 in 25,981. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 44 percent are found, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent are found and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 14 percent are found. Barring The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 18 percent are found and Benin, where 10 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 Ouele
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