Names distinctive to Côte d'Ivoire

The list of names unique to the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Kouassi 96% 1.
2. Koffi 81% 2.
3. Kouakou 98% 7.
4. Kouame 97% 8.
5. Konan 97% 9.
6. Ouattara 72% 5.
7. Yao 64% 4.
8. Coulibaly 41% 3.
9. Kone 54% 6.
10. Soro 78% 12.
11. Bamba 57% 11.
12. Brou 92% 14.
13. Toure 27% 10.
14. Kouamé 99% 16.
15. Diomande 94% 17.
16. Nguessan 96% 23.
17. Koné 57% 15.
18. Adou 81% 22.
19. Fofana 30% 13.
20. Soumahoro 92% 24.
21. Bakayoko 91% 25.
22. Dosso 82% 26.
23. Yapo 78% 28.
24. Yapi 75% 27.
25. Tanoh 95% 30.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Burkina Faso 25%
Senegal 24%
Benin 24%
Mali 22%
Togo 22%
Cameroon 21%
Gabon 20%
Ghana 17%
Guinea 17%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).