Alekou Surname
Approximately 282 people bear this surname
Alekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 160 | 1:69,249 | 11,632 |
| Cameroon | 37 | 1:561,326 | 43,620 |
| Niger | 28 | 1:685,429 | 16,503 |
| Cyprus | 20 | 1:44,244 | 4,510 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Jersey | 3 | 1:33,067 | 4,675 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Alekou (43) may also be a first name.
Alekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Alekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Alekou is held by more people in Greece than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Alekou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Alekou? popularity and diffusion
Alekou is the 933,049th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 25,842,361 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 66 percent of Alekou live; 64 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 64 percent live in Helleno-Europe. It is also the 1,545,828th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 43 people.
This surname is most numerous in Greece, where it is carried by 160 people, or 1 in 69,249. In Greece it is mostly concentrated in: Attica, where 51 percent live, Central Macedonia, where 25 percent live and Thessaly, where 21 percent live. Barring Greece it occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 13 percent live and Niger, where 10 percent live.
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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 Alekou
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