Forou Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Forou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 37 | 1:299,454 | 43,754 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
Forou (400) may also be a first name.
Forou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Forou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Forou (Russian: Фороу) is found in Greece more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Forou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,372,517th most frequently occurring surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. The last name Forou occurs mostly in Europe, where 58 percent of Forou are found; 57 percent are found in Southeastern Europe and 57 percent are found in Helleno-Europe. It is also the 431,593rd most frequent first name worldwide, borne by 400 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Greece, where it is borne by 37 people, or 1 in 299,454. In Greece it is most frequent in: Attica, where 84 percent are found, North Aegean, where 11 percent are found and Thessaly, where 3 percent are found. Other than Greece this last name is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent are found and Benin, where 12 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Forou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Forou in the Russian language | ||
| Фороу | forou | - |
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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 Forou
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