Yaoua Surname
Approximately 5,122 people bear this surname
Yaoua Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 4,808 | 1:4,799 | 439 |
| Burkina Faso | 161 | 1:113,988 | 3,362 |
| Niger | 118 | 1:162,644 | 5,862 |
| Cameroon | 31 | 1:669,970 | 49,334 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Yaoua (20,552) may also be a first name.
Yaoua Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yaoua Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yaoua is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Yaoua.
How Common Is The Last Name Yaoua? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yaoua is the 93,206th most widely held last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,422,793 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Yaoua live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 90 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yaoua is also the 37,061st most frequently held first name world-wide It is held by 20,552 people.
The last name Yaoua is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 4,808 people, or 1 in 4,799. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly found in: Zanzan District, where 77 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 7 percent live and Comoé District, where 6 percent live. Aside from The Ivory Coast it exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 3 percent live and Niger, 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 Yaoua
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