Famou Surname
Approximately 198 people bear this surname
Famou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 151 | 1:137,543 | 15,369 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
Famou (121) may also be a first name.
Famou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Famou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Famou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﺎﻣﻮ) is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Famou? popularity and diffusion
Famou is the 1,194,481st most commonly occurring family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 36,805,787 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Famou reside; 75 percent reside in Central Africa and 71 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Famou is also the 848,089th most frequently occurring first name internationally It is held by 121 people.
Famou is most common in Cameroon, where it is borne by 151 people, or 1 in 137,543. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: Littoral Region, where 61 percent are found, Centre Region, where 19 percent are found and West Region, where 11 percent are found. Not including Cameroon this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 15 percent are found and Nigeria, where 5 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Famou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Famou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﺎﻣﻮ | famw | 75 |
| ﺍﻓﺎﻣﻮ | afamw | 25 |
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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 Famou
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