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) is found most frequently in Japan. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gamou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 69,554th most common surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 1,023,532 people. The last name Gamou occurs mostly in Asia, where 83 percent of Gamou reside; 83 percent reside in East Asia and 83 percent reside in Nippono-Asia. Gamou is also the 140,755th most commonly occurring given name worldwide, held by 2,706 people.
Gamou is most frequently occurring in Japan, where it is carried by 5,919 people, or 1 in 21,599. In Japan it is most frequent 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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