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) occurs most in Mauritania. It may be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Garnou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,168,711th most commonly used family name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 95,888,762 people. The surname Garnou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Garnou reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Senegambia Africa.
The surname is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is held by 73 people, or 1 in 56,094. In Mauritania Garnou is primarily concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 74 percent live, Brakna Region, where 25 percent live and Gorgol Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Mauritania this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and Morocco, where 1 percent live.
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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