Fossou Surname
Approximately 1,761 people bear this surname
Fossou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,228 | 1:18,788 | 1,426 |
| Benin | 456 | 1:22,666 | 3,044 |
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| France | 25 | 1:2,656,909 | 193,074 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Fossou (418) may also be a first name.
Fossou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fossou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Fossou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻮﺳﻮ) is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of Fossou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Fossou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Fossou is the 229,904th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 4,138,300 people. The last name Fossou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 72 percent of Fossou live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 69 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 420,385th most numerous given name worldwide. It is borne by 418 people.
This last name is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,228 people, or 1 in 18,788. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 35 percent are found, Lacs District, where 30 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast Fossou is found in 10 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 26 percent are found and Cameroon, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Fossou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Fossou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻮﺳﻮ | fwsw | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Fossou
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