Ghallou Surname
Approximately 284 people bear this surname
Ghallou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 273 | 1:126,286 | 22,036 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Ghallou (13) may also be a first name.
Ghallou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ghallou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ghallou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻗﻠﻮ) is held by more people in Morocco than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ghallou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 928,396th most commonly held surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 25,660,373 people. The last name Ghallou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ghallou reside; 96 percent reside in North Africa and 96 percent reside in Mahgreb. Ghallou is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name on earth, borne by 13 people.
Ghallou is most commonly held in Morocco, where it is borne by 273 people, or 1 in 126,286. Outside of Morocco this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 4 percent reside and Mauritania, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Ghallou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ghallou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻗﻠﻮ | qlw | - |
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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 Ghallou
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