Gamou Surname
Approximately 7,120 people bear this surname
Gamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 5,919 | 1:21,599 | 2,373 |
| Guinea | 934 | 1:12,670 | 383 |
| Senegal | 96 | 1:151,868 | 1,256 |
| Cameroon | 53 | 1:391,869 | 33,952 |
| Benin | 46 | 1:224,687 | 20,522 |
| Niger | 30 | 1:639,734 | 15,675 |
| Uruguay | 21 | 1:163,417 | 13,939 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Central African Republic | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 387 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Gamou (2,706) may also be a first name.
Gamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻣﻮ) has its highest incidence in Japan. It can also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gamou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 69,554th most commonly occurring surname on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,023,532 people. Gamou occurs predominantly in Asia, where 83 percent of Gamou are found; 83 percent are found in East Asia and 83 percent are found in Nippono-Asia. It is also the 140,755th most frequently used first name at a global level It is held by 2,706 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Japan, where it is held by 5,919 people, or 1 in 21,599. In Japan Gamou is mostly found in: Tokyo Metropolis, where 14 percent are found, Shiga Prefecture, where 7 percent are found and Osaka Prefecture, where 7 percent are found. Outside of Japan Gamou exists in 16 countries. It is also found in Guinea, where 13 percent are found and Senegal, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gamou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gamou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻣﻮ | kamw | 73.08 |
| ﻛﻤﻮ | kmw | 19.23 |
| ﻗﺎﻣﻮ | qamw | 3.85 |
| ﻏﺎﻣﻮ | ghamw | 3.85 |
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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 Gamou
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