Ourouba Surname
Approximately 5 people bear this surname
Ourouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Ourouba (57) may also be a first name.
Ourouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ourouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ourouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﺮﻭﺑﻪ) is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Ourouba? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 8,193,072nd most frequently held last name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 40 percent of Ourouba are found; 40 percent are found in West Africa and 40 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Ourouba is also the 1,308,380th most frequently used forename world-wide, borne by 57 people.
The last name Ourouba is most frequently occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 2 people, or 1 in 11,535,616. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 50 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 50 percent reside. Apart from The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 20 percent reside and France, where 20 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ourouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ourouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﺮﻭﺑﻪ | rwbh | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﻌﺮﻭﺑﻪ | alrwbh | 50 |
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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 Ourouba
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