Vouna Surname
Approximately 73 people bear this surname
Vouna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 58 | 1:358,087 | 31,912 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Vouna (71) may also be a first name.
Vouna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vouna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Vouna (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻮﻧﻪ, Hindi: वौना) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Vouna? popularity and diffusion
The last name Vouna is the 2,220,661st most commonly used family name internationally, held by around 1 in 99,829,396 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Vouna live; 51 percent live in Central Africa and 48 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Vouna is also the 1,152,838th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 71 people.
The last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 58 people, or 1 in 358,087. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 55 percent are found, Far North Region, where 36 percent are found and North Region, where 3 percent are found. Beside Cameroon this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 7 percent are found and Chad, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vouna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vouna in the Hindi language | ||
| वौना | vauna | - |
| Vouna in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻮﻧﻪ | fwnh | 88.89 |
| ﻓﻮﻥ | fwn | 11.11 |
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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 Vouna
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