Gadou Surname
Approximately 5,721 people bear this surname
Gadou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,518 | 1:15,198 | 1,197 |
| Chad | 1,155 | 1:11,768 | 1,513 |
| Egypt | 1,068 | 1:86,082 | 7,577 |
| Burkina Faso | 704 | 1:26,068 | 1,598 |
| Cameroon | 498 | 1:41,705 | 5,548 |
| France | 316 | 1:210,198 | 32,673 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Niger | 71 | 1:270,310 | 8,391 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 1:2,038,429 | 140,827 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Gadou (1,216) may also be a first name.
Gadou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gadou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gadou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﺩﻭ) is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It can appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gadou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 84,460th most numerous surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,273,824 people. The last name Gadou occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Gadou are found; 63 percent are found in West Africa and 30 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 227,056th most numerous given name internationally, held by 1,216 people.
It is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,518 people, or 1 in 15,198. In The Ivory Coast Gadou is most numerous in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 32 percent are found, Bas-Sassandra District, where 26 percent are found and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 24 percent are found. Apart from The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 31 countries. It is also found in Chad, where 20 percent are found and Egypt, where 19 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gadou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gadou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﺩﻭ | kadw | 50 |
| ﻛﺎﺟﻮ | kajw | 50 |
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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 Gadou
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