Awahou Surname
Approximately 29 people bear this surname
Awahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Mauritania | 8 | 1:511,858 | 18,608 |
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Awahou (1,366) may also be a first name.
Awahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Awahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Awahou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻭﺍﻩ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Awahou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Awahou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 3,665,662nd most commonly held family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 251,294,687 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 72 percent of Awahou live; 45 percent live in West Africa and 31 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 212,002nd most frequent given name throughout the world, borne by 1,366 people.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 2,307,674. In Cameroon Awahou is most prevalent in: West Region, where 78 percent live, Adamawa Region, where 11 percent live and East Region, where 11 percent live. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 28 percent live and New Zealand, where 21 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Awahou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Awahou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻭﺍﻩ | awah | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Awahou
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