Gakou Surname
Approximately 15,834 people bear this surname
Gakou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 10,906 | 1:1,556 | 155 |
| Senegal | 3,221 | 1:4,526 | 251 |
| Guinea | 342 | 1:34,602 | 560 |
| Ivory Coast | 279 | 1:82,693 | 4,460 |
| Cameroon | 244 | 1:85,119 | 10,334 |
| Benin | 215 | 1:48,073 | 6,085 |
| Burkina Faso | 195 | 1:94,113 | 3,050 |
| Congo | 85 | 1:58,695 | 5,228 |
| Spain | 77 | 1:607,169 | 28,212 |
| Mauritania | 61 | 1:67,129 | 4,615 |
| United States | 59 | 1:6,143,372 | 295,589 |
| France | 36 | 1:1,845,076 | 161,051 |
| Greece | 32 | 1:346,243 | 48,387 |
| Niger | 20 | 1:959,601 | 21,357 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| Liberia | 13 | 1:339,118 | 18,650 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Belgium | 5 | 1:2,299,329 | 106,824 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
Gakou (1,467) may also be a first name.
Gakou Demographics
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Gakou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gakou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gakou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﻮ) is found most in Mali. It may occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Gakou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gakou? popularity and diffusion
Gakou is the 33,539th most commonly held surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 460,247 people. Gakou occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Gakou reside; 95 percent reside in West Africa and 71 percent reside in Mande Africa. Gakou is also the 203,350th most frequently used given name world-wide, held by 1,467 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Mali, where it is held by 10,906 people, or 1 in 1,556. Excluding Mali this surname exists in 31 countries. It also occurs in Senegal, where 20 percent are found and Guinea, where 2 percent are found.
Gakou Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gakou surname are 6.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 60% being registered with the political party.
The amount Gakou earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 45.4% less than the national average, earning $23,558 USD per year and in Canada they earn 43.49% less than the national average, earning $28,076 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gakou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gakou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﻮ | kakw | 93.75 |
| ﺟﺎﻛﻮ | jakw | 6.25 |
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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 Gakou
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