Adamou Surname
Approximately 537,726 people bear this surname
Adamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 376,702 | 1:51 | 5 |
| Cameroon | 87,533 | 1:237 | 7 |
| Benin | 46,425 | 1:223 | 7 |
| Chad | 13,576 | 1:1,001 | 175 |
| Togo | 3,780 | 1:1,917 | 224 |
| Cyprus | 1,919 | 1:461 | 62 |
| Algeria | 1,372 | 1:28,157 | 5,114 |
| Ivory Coast | 1,372 | 1:16,816 | 1,300 |
| Greece | 1,020 | 1:10,863 | 1,412 |
| Mali | 903 | 1:18,792 | 722 |
| Comoros | 663 | 1:1,131 | 163 |
| Gabon | 606 | 1:3,117 | 542 |
| England | 395 | 1:141,058 | 13,696 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Burkina Faso | 204 | 1:89,961 | 2,994 |
| United States | 170 | 1:2,132,111 | 135,040 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| France | 92 | 1:721,986 | 90,334 |
| Belgium | 52 | 1:221,089 | 28,230 |
| South Africa | 45 | 1:1,203,949 | 68,637 |
| Australia | 44 | 1:613,539 | 43,545 |
| Canada | 39 | 1:944,759 | 71,777 |
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | 38 | 1:207 | 51 |
| Senegal | 33 | 1:441,798 | 2,028 |
| Guinea | 33 | 1:358,601 | 1,162 |
| Germany | 31 | 1:2,596,950 | 129,424 |
| Nigeria | 27 | 1:6,560,843 | 154,927 |
| Iraq | 26 | 1:1,346,987 | 15,017 |
| Lebanon | 26 | 1:216,811 | 8,749 |
| Spain | 19 | 1:2,460,633 | 58,585 |
| Congo | 17 | 1:293,476 | 8,994 |
| United Arab Emirates | 12 | 1:763,523 | 25,625 |
| Syria | 10 | 1:1,930,102 | 9,170 |
| Netherlands | 9 | 1:1,876,353 | 85,467 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| Finland | 8 | 1:687,088 | 36,047 |
| Jordan | 7 | 1:1,263,205 | 16,935 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Central African Republic | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 387 |
| Madagascar | 4 | 1:5,912,459 | 5,394 |
| Libya | 4 | 1:1,560,994 | 3,087 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| Djibouti | 4 | 1:228,733 | 966 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Iceland | 3 | 1:126,697 | 5,403 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Montenegro | 2 | 1:319,782 | 7,691 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Haiti | 2 | 1:5,341,954 | 21,336 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1:2,668,225 | 118,680 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
The alternate forms: Âdamou (1) are calculated separately.
Adamou (271,676) may also be a first name.
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Adamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Adamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺩﻣﻮ) occurs more in Niger more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant: Âdamou. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Adamou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 987th most commonly occurring family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 13,553 people. Adamou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Adamou live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 76 percent live in Chadic Africa. Adamou is also the 3,865th most widespread first name throughout the world It is held by 271,676 people.
The surname Adamou is most common in Niger, where it is carried by 376,702 people, or 1 in 51. In Niger it is most frequent in: Dosso Region, where 20 percent live, Tahoua Region, where 19 percent live and Tillabéri Region, where 18 percent live. Barring Niger this surname exists in 73 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 16 percent live and Benin, where 9 percent live.
Adamou Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Adamou last name is predominantly Melkite Greek Catholic (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those holding the Adamou last name are 8.06% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 61.29% being registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Adamou earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 70.87% more than the national average, earning R 406,044 per year; in United States they earn 23.36% less than the national average, earning $33,070 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.86% less than the national average, earning $49,256 CAD per year.
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Adamou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adamou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﺩﻣﻮ | admw | - |
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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 Adamou
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