Colou Surname
Approximately 165 people bear this surname
Colou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 158 | 1:420,397 | 61,236 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Colou (65) may also be a first name.
Colou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Colou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Colou is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Colou.
How Common Is The Last Name Colou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,348,199th most frequently held surname on earth, held by around 1 in 44,166,945 people. Colou is mostly found in Europe, where 96 percent of Colou are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. Colou is also the 1,212,820th most widely held first name throughout the world It is held by 65 people.
Colou is most frequently used in France, where it is held by 158 people, or 1 in 420,397. In France it is primarily found in: Pays de la Loire, where 87 percent live, Île-de-France, where 9 percent live and Centre-Val de Loire, where 1 percent live. Outside of France Colou exists in 5 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 2 percent live and Brazil, where 1 percent live.
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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 Colou
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