Saoure Surname
Approximately 1,017 people bear this surname
Saoure Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 945 | 1:24,414 | 1,744 |
| Benin | 69 | 1:149,791 | 15,556 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
The alternate forms: Saouré (3) are calculated separately.
Saoure (238) may also be a first name.
Saoure Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Saoure Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Saoure is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Saouré. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Saoure? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 356,968th most commonly occurring family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 7,165,729 people. Saoure occurs predominantly in Africa, where 82 percent of Saoure reside; 82 percent reside in West Africa and 77 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 580,229th most frequently held first name globally It is held by 238 people.
The last name is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 945 people, or 1 in 24,414. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 32 percent live, Vallée du Bandama District, where 21 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 18 percent live. Outside of The Ivory Coast Saoure occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 7 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 0 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 Saoure
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