Aliyou Surname
Approximately 1,183 people bear this surname
Aliyou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 591 | 1:35,142 | 4,723 |
| Niger | 496 | 1:38,694 | 2,095 |
| Ethiopia | 49 | 1:1,990,740 | 8,024 |
| Ivory Coast | 17 | 1:1,357,131 | 29,476 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
Aliyou (9,365) may also be a first name.
Aliyou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Aliyou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Aliyou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻋﻠﻴﻮ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of Aliyou.
How Common Is The Last Name Aliyou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 316,846th most frequently occurring surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 6,160,225 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Aliyou live; 58 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Chadic Africa. Aliyou is also the 64,063rd most common first name worldwide, held by 9,365 people.
This last name is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is held by 591 people, or 1 in 35,142. In Cameroon Aliyou is most common in: Adamawa Region, where 31 percent are found, West Region, where 20 percent are found and North Region, where 15 percent are found. Aside from Cameroon it exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 42 percent are found and Ethiopia, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Aliyou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Aliyou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻋﻠﻴﻮ | lyw | 30.43 |
| ﻋﻠﻲ | ly | 30.43 |
| ﻋﺎﻟﻴﻮ | alyw | 13.04 |
| ﺍﻋﻠﻴﻮ | alyw | 13.04 |
| ﺁﻟﻴﻮ | alyw | 8.7 |
| ﻋﺎﻟﻲ | aly | 4.35 |
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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 Aliyou
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