Ouessai Surname
Approximately 690 people bear this surname
Ouessai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 684 | 1:56,479 | 9,549 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
Ouessai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouessai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouessai occurs more in Algeria more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ouessai click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouessai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ouessai is the 482,629th most frequently held surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 10,561,661 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Ouessai live; 99 percent live in North Africa and 99 percent live in Mahgreb.
The surname Ouessai is most widely held in Algeria, where it is carried by 684 people, or 1 in 56,479. In Algeria it is most frequent in: El Bayadh Province, where 91 percent reside and Saïda Province, where 9 percent reside. Beside Algeria it occurs in one country. It is also found in Canada, where 1 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Ouessai
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