Amekou Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Amekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 45 | 1:512,694 | 16,131 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
Amekou (11) may also be a first name.
Amekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Amekou is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Amekou? popularity and diffusion
Amekou is the 2,776,799th most widespread surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 35 percent of Amekou live; 35 percent live in West Africa and 35 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,487,849th most common first name at a global level, held by 11 people.
The last name Amekou is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 45 people, or 1 in 512,694. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Yamoussoukro Autonomous District, where 44 percent live, Comoé District, where 33 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 20 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 2 percent live and Benin, where 2 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
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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 Amekou
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