Assetou Surname
Approximately 1,807 people bear this surname
Assetou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,685 | 1:13,692 | 1,099 |
| Burkina Faso | 115 | 1:159,583 | 3,945 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Assetou (71,041) may also be a first name.
Assetou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Assetou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Assetou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺁﻳﺴﺔ) is found most in The Ivory Coast. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Assetou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Assetou is the 224,999th most commonly occurring last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 4,032,953 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 69 percent of Assetou are found; 69 percent are found in West Africa and 57 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Assetou is also the 13,687th most widely held first name globally, borne by 71,041 people.
The surname Assetou is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,685 people, or 1 in 13,692. In The Ivory Coast Assetou is most frequent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 32 percent reside, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 13 percent reside and Comoé District, where 11 percent reside. Other than The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 6 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Assetou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Assetou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺁﻳﺴﺔ | ayst | 25 |
| ﺁﺳﺘﻮ | astw | 25 |
| ﻋﺎﺳﺘﻮ | astw | 25 |
| ﺍﻳﺴﺔ | ayst | 25 |
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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 Assetou
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