Ounwa Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Ounwa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 40 | 1:576,781 | 17,373 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
Ounwa (69) may also be a first name.
Ounwa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ounwa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ounwa is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ounwa? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,776,799th most commonly used last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname Ounwa occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ounwa live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Mande Africa. Ounwa is also the 1,171,416th most commonly used given name globally, borne by 69 people.
This surname is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 576,781. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 100 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 12 percent live and Niger, where 6 percent live.
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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 Ounwa
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