Oueni Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Oueni Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 19 | 1:543,979 | 34,804 |
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Senegal | 8 | 1:1,822,418 | 4,361 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Burkina Faso | 4 | 1:4,588,025 | 21,573 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Oueni (122) may also be a first name.
Oueni Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oueni Come From? nationality or country of origin
Oueni (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﻧﻲ) is borne by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Oueni? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,808,717th most frequently used surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 151,823,873 people. The last name Oueni occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Oueni reside; 88 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Oueni is also the 844,248th most commonly occurring first name in the world, held by 122 people.
The last name is most numerous in Benin, where it is borne by 19 people, or 1 in 543,979. In Benin Oueni is primarily concentrated in: Atakora Department, where 58 percent live, Borgou Department, where 37 percent live and Donga Department, where 5 percent live. Other than Benin this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 23 percent live and Senegal, where 17 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Oueni Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oueni in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﻧﻲ | wny | - |
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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 Oueni
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