Bekou Surname
Approximately 2,516 people bear this surname
Bekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| Benin | 607 | 1:17,027 | 2,302 |
| Greece | 401 | 1:27,630 | 4,207 |
| Cameroon | 387 | 1:53,667 | 6,988 |
| Ivory Coast | 233 | 1:99,018 | 5,158 |
| Congo | 152 | 1:32,823 | 3,263 |
| Mauritania | 59 | 1:69,404 | 4,742 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Békou (1) are calculated separately.
Bekou (185) may also be a first name.
Bekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bekou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﻮ) is carried by more people in Togo than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Békou. Click here for other potential spellings of Bekou.
How Common Is The Last Name Bekou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 171,190th most widespread last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 2,896,481 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Bekou live; 59 percent live in West Africa and 50 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bekou is also the 669,105th most commonly held first name world-wide It is held by 185 people.
Bekou is most prevalent in Togo, where it is borne by 630 people, or 1 in 11,504. Outside of Togo Bekou exists in 22 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 24 percent are found and Greece, where 16 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bekou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bekou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﻮ | bkw | 88.89 |
| ﺑﻚ | bk | 11.11 |
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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 Bekou
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