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 carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gadou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 84,460th most frequently occurring family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 1,273,824 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 84 percent of Gadou reside; 63 percent reside in West Africa and 30 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gadou is also the 227,056th most commonly held first name globally, borne by 1,216 people.
This surname is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,518 people, or 1 in 15,198. In The Ivory Coast Gadou is mostly found 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. Besides The Ivory Coast Gadou is found in 31 countries. It also occurs 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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