Afou Surname
Approximately 539 people bear this surname
Afou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 220 | 1:94,405 | 11,260 |
| Algeria | 82 | 1:471,116 | 36,281 |
| Benin | 69 | 1:149,791 | 15,556 |
| Ivory Coast | 65 | 1:354,942 | 12,641 |
| French Polynesia | 37 | 1:7,589 | 1,667 |
| Niger | 20 | 1:959,601 | 21,357 |
| Nigeria | 18 | 1:9,841,264 | 197,192 |
| Mauritania | 10 | 1:409,486 | 16,302 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Afou (8,862) may also be a first name.
Afou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Afou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Afou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻓﻮ) occurs most in Cameroon. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Afou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 582,011th most prevalent family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 13,520,493 people. Afou occurs mostly in Africa, where 88 percent of Afou live; 38 percent live in Central Africa and 38 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 66,398th most frequently held forename globally, held by 8,862 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 220 people, or 1 in 94,405. In Cameroon Afou is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 81 percent live, South Region, where 9 percent live and North Region, where 5 percent live. Other than Cameroon this surname is found in 16 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 15 percent live and Benin, where 13 percent live.
Afou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Afou has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Afou surname rose 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Afou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Afou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻓﻮ | afw | 57.14 |
| ﺁﻓﻮ | afw | 28.57 |
| ﻋﻒ | f | 14.29 |
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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 Afou
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