Ouyai Surname
Approximately 129 people bear this surname
Ouyai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 109 | 1:74,805 | 9,807 |
| Benin | 18 | 1:574,200 | 35,798 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
The alternate forms: Ouyaî (1) are calculated separately.
Ouyai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ouyai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ouyai is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It can occur as a variant: Ouyaî. Click here for further potential spellings of Ouyai.
How Common Is The Last Name Ouyai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,581,912th most widespread family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 56,492,604 people. Ouyai occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 84 percent of Ouyai reside; 84 percent reside in Oceania Islands and 84 percent reside in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most commonly used in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 109 people, or 1 in 74,805. In Papua New Guinea Ouyai is primarily found in: West Sepik, where 95 percent live and West New Britain, where 5 percent live. Besides Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 14 percent live and South Sudan, where 1 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
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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 Ouyai
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