Gabou Surname
Approximately 1,479 people bear this surname
Gabou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 369 | 1:358,399 | 30,926 |
| Ivory Coast | 296 | 1:77,943 | 4,268 |
| Benin | 241 | 1:42,886 | 5,494 |
| Niger | 183 | 1:104,874 | 4,261 |
| France | 153 | 1:434,135 | 62,815 |
| Cameroon | 69 | 1:301,001 | 28,076 |
| Burkina Faso | 56 | 1:327,716 | 5,601 |
| Mauritania | 48 | 1:85,310 | 5,518 |
| Papua New Guinea | 19 | 1:429,143 | 55,452 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 1:1,728,021 | 323 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Gabou (956) may also be a first name.
Gabou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gabou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gabou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﺑﻮ) is found most frequently in Indonesia. It can also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gabou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Gabou is the 264,657th most widely held family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,927,347 people. Gabou occurs mostly in Africa, where 61 percent of Gabou live; 50 percent live in West Africa and 33 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gabou is also the 261,062nd most widespread first name worldwide, borne by 956 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Indonesia, where it is borne by 369 people, or 1 in 358,399. In Indonesia it is primarily concentrated in: West Papua, where 52 percent are found and Papua, where 48 percent are found. Beside Indonesia this surname exists in 25 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 20 percent are found and Benin, where 16 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gabou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gabou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﺑﻮ | kabw | 88.24 |
| ﻛﺒﻮ | kbw | 5.88 |
| ﻗﺎﺑﻮ | qabw | 5.88 |
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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 Gabou
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