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 occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Amekou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,776,799th most widely held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname Amekou is predominantly found in Africa, where 35 percent of Amekou live; 35 percent live in West Africa and 35 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Amekou is also the 3,487,849th most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, held by 11 people.
It is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 45 people, or 1 in 512,694. In The Ivory Coast Amekou is mostly concentrated in: Yamoussoukro Autonomous District, where 44 percent reside, Comoé District, where 33 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 20 percent reside. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 2 percent reside and Benin, where 2 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 Amekou
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