Foumou Surname
Approximately 225 people bear this surname
Foumou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 211 | 1:98,432 | 11,665 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Comoros | 1 | 1:749,524 | 685 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Foumou (13) may also be a first name.
Foumou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Foumou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Foumou occurs most in Cameroon. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Foumou? popularity and diffusion
Foumou is the 1,092,155th most frequent family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 32,389,093 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Foumou live; 95 percent live in Central Africa and 94 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Foumou is also the 3,159,357th most common first name world-wide, borne by 13 people.
This last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 211 people, or 1 in 98,432. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 46 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 27 percent reside and West Region, where 21 percent reside. Besides Cameroon it exists in 7 countries. It is also found in The Congo, where 2 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Foumou
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