Adabou Surname
Approximately 56 people bear this surname
Adabou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 25 | 1:734,084 | 8,477 |
| Niger | 22 | 1:872,364 | 19,806 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Adabou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adabou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adabou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﺩﺏ) is carried by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Adabou.
How Common Is The Last Name Adabou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Adabou is the 2,580,327th most frequently held surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 130,134,748 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 98 percent of Adabou are found; 98 percent are found in West Africa and 55 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 25 people, or 1 in 734,084. In Burkina Faso Adabou is primarily concentrated in: Centre-Sud Region, where 92 percent live and Centre Region, where 8 percent live. Besides Burkina Faso this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 39 percent live and Benin, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Adabou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adabou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﺩﺏ | adb | - |
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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 Adabou
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