Garnou Surname
Approximately 76 people bear this surname
Garnou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 73 | 1:56,094 | 4,003 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Garnou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Garnou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Garnou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﻧﻮ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Garnou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,168,711th most frequently used last name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 95,888,762 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Garnou live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 96 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
The surname Garnou is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is held by 73 people, or 1 in 56,094. In Mauritania it is mostly concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 74 percent are found, Brakna Region, where 25 percent are found and Gorgol Region, where 1 percent are found. Apart from Mauritania Garnou exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent are found and Morocco, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Garnou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Garnou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﻧﻮ | krnw | 86.96 |
| ﻛﺎﺭﻧﻮ | karnw | 8.7 |
| ﻗﺮﻧﻮ | qrnw | 4.35 |
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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 Garnou
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