Ouessi Surname
Approximately 55 people bear this surname
Ouessi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 51 | 1:452,377 | 14,862 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
Ouessi (54) may also be a first name.
Ouessi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouessi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ouessi is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Ouessi.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouessi? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ouessi is the 2,605,694th most widely held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 36 percent of Ouessi live; 33 percent live in West Africa and 31 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 1,350,955th most widespread first name on earth, held by 54 people.
Ouessi is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 51 people, or 1 in 452,377. In The Ivory Coast Ouessi is primarily concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 69 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 31 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast it exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 4 percent are found and The Congo, where 4 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 Ouessi
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