Courau Surname
Approximately 530 people bear this surname
Courau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 474 | 1:140,132 | 21,567 |
| Argentina | 27 | 1:1,583,089 | 86,049 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Belgium | 6 | 1:1,916,107 | 103,447 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
Courau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Courau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Courau is more commonly found in France than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Courau? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 589,215th most frequent last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 13,750,087 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 92 percent of Courau live; 90 percent live in Western Europe and 90 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
The surname is most numerous in France, where it is carried by 474 people, or 1 in 140,132. In France it is mostly concentrated in: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 38 percent live, Île-de-France, where 32 percent live and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 6 percent live. Apart from France this last name exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 5 percent live and England, 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 Courau
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