Bintou Surname
Approximately 5,480 people bear this surname
Bintou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,246 | 1:10,272 | 838 |
| Cameroon | 1,452 | 1:14,304 | 1,952 |
| Chad | 867 | 1:15,677 | 1,955 |
| Niger | 397 | 1:48,343 | 2,437 |
| Burkina Faso | 343 | 1:53,505 | 2,317 |
| Mauritania | 80 | 1:51,186 | 3,739 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Greece | 12 | 1:923,316 | 84,525 |
| Mali | 9 | 1:1,885,448 | 1,868 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Gambia | 4 | 1:480,863 | 548 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Bintou (371,089) may also be a first name.
Bintou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bintou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bintou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻨﺘﻮ, Hindi: बिन्टू) is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other potential spellings of Bintou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bintou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 87,736th most widely held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,329,844 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Bintou reside; 82 percent reside in West Africa and 38 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Bintou is also the 2,807th most commonly used given name in the world, held by 371,089 people.
The last name Bintou is most commonly occurring in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 2,246 people, or 1 in 10,272. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 30 percent reside, Montagnes District, where 12 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 10 percent reside. Not including The Ivory Coast this surname occurs in 24 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 26 percent reside and Chad, where 16 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bintou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bintou in the Hindi language | ||
| बिन्टू | bintu | - |
| Bintou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻨﺘﻮ | bntw | 58.78 |
| ﺑﻨﺖ | bnt | 37.3 |
| ﺑﻴﻨﺘﻮ | byntw | 1.16 |
| ﺑﻨﺘﺎ | bnta | 0.87 |
| ﺑﻨﺘﻮﺍ | bntwa | 0.29 |
| ﺍﺑﻨﺖ | abnt | 0.29 |
| ﺑﻨﺘﻪ | bnth | 0.29 |
| ﺑﻴﻨﺘﺎ | bynta | 0.15 |
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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 Bintou
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