Ouleye Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Ouleye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 11 | 1:2,097,385 | 37,425 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Ouleye (10,052) may also be a first name.
Ouleye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouleye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ouleye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻠﻴﻪ) is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouleye? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,908,606th most commonly held surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 44 percent of Ouleye are found; 44 percent are found in West Africa and 25 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 61,028th most frequently occurring first name globally, held by 10,052 people.
The surname Ouleye is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 11 people, or 1 in 2,097,385. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 73 percent live, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 9 percent live and Lacs District, where 9 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 19 percent live and Benin, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ouleye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ouleye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻠﻴﻪ | lyh | 55.56 |
| ﺃﻭﻟﻲ | awly | 33.33 |
| ﻫﻮﻟﻲ | hwly | 11.11 |
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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 Ouleye
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