Ourega Surname
Approximately 2,298 people bear this surname
Ourega Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,231 | 1:10,341 | 844 |
| France | 59 | 1:1,125,809 | 120,603 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
The alternate forms: Ouréga (4) are calculated separately.
Ourega (921) may also be a first name.
Ourega Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ourega Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ourega is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms: Ouréga. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ourega? popularity and diffusion
The surname Ourega is the 184,580th most widely held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 3,171,256 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 65 percent of Ourega reside; 65 percent reside in West Africa and 63 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 266,960th most commonly held given name on earth, held by 921 people.
The surname Ourega is most common in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 2,231 people, or 1 in 10,341. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 54 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 33 percent are found and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 3 percent are found. Besides The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in France, where 3 percent are found and Uganda, where 0 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 Ourega
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