Woura Surname
Approximately 236 people bear this surname
Woura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 153 | 1:135,746 | 15,205 |
| Benin | 32 | 1:322,988 | 25,835 |
| Burkina Faso | 22 | 1:834,186 | 9,118 |
| Niger | 16 | 1:1,199,501 | 25,520 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
Woura (297) may also be a first name.
Woura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Woura Come From? nationality or country of origin
Woura (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻭﺭﺍ) is found most in Cameroon. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Woura? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,058,336th most frequently occurring family name globally, held by approximately 1 in 30,879,432 people. The surname Woura occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Woura reside; 74 percent reside in West Africa and 27 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Woura is also the 511,663rd most common given name at a global level It is held by 297 people.
Woura is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is carried by 153 people, or 1 in 135,746. In Cameroon Woura is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 75 percent are found, North Region, where 22 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 1 percent are found. Aside from Cameroon this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 14 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 9 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Woura Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Woura in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻭﺭﺍ | awra | - |
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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 Woura
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