Saoura Surname
Approximately 1,452 people bear this surname
Saoura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,069 | 1:17,168 | 1,267 |
| Morocco | 273 | 1:126,286 | 22,036 |
| France | 29 | 1:2,290,439 | 180,028 |
| Iraq | 21 | 1:1,667,698 | 16,789 |
| India | 20 | 1:38,353,269 | 431,471 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Saoura (373) may also be a first name.
Saoura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Saoura Come From? nationality or country of origin
Saoura is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Saoura? popularity and diffusion
It is the 268,717th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 5,018,971 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Saoura live; 75 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Saoura is also the 449,413th most numerous given name on earth, held by 373 people.
The surname Saoura is most frequently occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 1,069 people, or 1 in 17,168. In Burkina Faso Saoura is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 56 percent live, Centre-Sud Region, where 39 percent live and Centre-Est Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Burkina Faso this surname occurs in 16 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 19 percent live and France, where 2 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 Saoura
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