Diokou Surname
Approximately 792 people bear this surname
Diokou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 789 | 1:18,478 | 500 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 1:1,728,021 | 323 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Diokou (10) may also be a first name.
Diokou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Diokou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Diokou is borne by more people in Senegal than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Diokou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 434,076th most widespread surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 9,201,447 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Diokou reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 10 people.
The surname Diokou is most frequent in Senegal, where it is carried by 789 people, or 1 in 18,478. In Senegal Diokou is mostly found in: Sédhiou Region, where 60 percent live, Dakar Region, where 17 percent live and Ziguinchor Region, where 14 percent live. Aside from Senegal it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 0 percent live and Guinea-Bissau, where 0 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 Diokou
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