Amirou Surname
Approximately 1,653 people bear this surname
Amirou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 850 | 1:22,579 | 1,377 |
| Algeria | 414 | 1:93,313 | 14,210 |
| Morocco | 239 | 1:144,251 | 25,171 |
| France | 73 | 1:909,900 | 105,096 |
| Benin | 47 | 1:219,906 | 20,230 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Amirou (4,144) may also be a first name.
Amirou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Amirou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Amirou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻣﻴﺮﻭ) is found most frequently in Niger. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Amirou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 241,646th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 4,408,679 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Amirou live; 55 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Chadic Africa. Amirou is also the 107,982nd most common first name throughout the world It is held by 4,144 people.
Amirou is most frequently occurring in Niger, where it is borne by 850 people, or 1 in 22,579. In Niger Amirou is most common in: Zinder Region, where 36 percent reside, Tillabéri Region, where 26 percent reside and Maradi Region, where 17 percent reside. Beside Niger it occurs in 14 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 25 percent reside and Morocco, where 14 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Amirou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Amirou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻣﻴﺮﻭ | amyrw | 33.33 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﺮﻭ | amyrw | 33.33 |
| ﺁﻣﻴﺮﻭ | amyrw | 33.33 |
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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 Amirou
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