Ouesso Surname
Approximately 34 people bear this surname
Ouesso Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
Ouesso Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouesso Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ouesso is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouesso? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,373,373rd most frequent surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 214,339,586 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ouesso reside; 85 percent reside in West Africa and 47 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name Ouesso is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 1,298,067. In Cameroon Ouesso is mostly concentrated in: Adamawa Region, where 81 percent are found, Centre Region, where 6 percent are found and South Region, where 6 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon Ouesso occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 47 percent are found and The Congo, where 6 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
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