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.
Adamou Demographics
Average Adamou Salary in
United States
$33,070 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Adamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Adamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Adamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﺩﻣﻮ) occurs most in Niger. It may also be rendered as a variant: Âdamou. Click here for other possible spellings of Adamou.
How Common Is The Last Name Adamou? popularity and diffusion
Adamou is the 987th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 13,553 people. Adamou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Adamou are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 76 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Adamou is also the 3,865th most widespread first name worldwide It is held by 271,676 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Niger, where it is held by 376,702 people, or 1 in 51. In Niger Adamou is most prevalent in: Dosso Region, where 20 percent are found, Tahoua Region, where 19 percent are found and Tillabéri Region, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Niger Adamou occurs in 73 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 16 percent are found and Benin, where 9 percent are found.
Adamou Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Melkite Greek Catholic (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those bearing the Adamou surname are 8.06% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 61.29% being registered to vote for the 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.
Phonetically Similar Names
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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