Alakou Surname
Approximately 136 people bear this surname
Alakou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 79 | 1:232,305 | 4,710 |
| Cameroon | 35 | 1:593,402 | 45,326 |
| Benin | 11 | 1:939,600 | 46,216 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Alakou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alakou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Alakou is found most in Burkina Faso. It can also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Alakou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Alakou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,527,735th most prevalent surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 53,584,896 people. The surname Alakou is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Alakou reside; 75 percent reside in West Africa and 68 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 79 people, or 1 in 232,305. In Burkina Faso it is most prevalent in: Centre-Sud Region, where 86 percent reside and Centre Region, where 14 percent reside. Barring Burkina Faso it exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 26 percent reside and Benin, where 8 percent reside.
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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 Alakou
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