Amarou Surname
Approximately 532 people bear this surname
Amarou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 179 | 1:215,819 | 24,918 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Mauritania | 72 | 1:56,873 | 4,043 |
| Niger | 55 | 1:348,946 | 10,096 |
| France | 51 | 1:1,302,406 | 132,002 |
| Benin | 13 | 1:795,046 | 42,452 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
Amarou (254) may also be a first name.
Amarou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amarou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Amarou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺃﻣﺮﻭ, Hindi: अमरौ) is more frequently found in Algeria than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amarou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 587,571st most frequent surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 13,698,395 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 89 percent of Amarou live; 59 percent live in North Africa and 59 percent live in Mahgreb. Amarou is also the 559,024th most commonly used first name world-wide, held by 254 people.
The last name Amarou is most commonly held in Algeria, where it is borne by 179 people, or 1 in 215,819. In Algeria it is mostly concentrated in: Mascara Province, where 100 percent are found. Besides Algeria this surname occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 26 percent are found and Mauritania, where 14 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amarou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amarou in the Hindi language | ||
| अमरौ | amarau | - |
| Amarou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺃﻣﺮﻭ | amrw | 62.5 |
| ﻋﻤﺎﺭﻭ | marw | 37.5 |
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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 Amarou
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