Gidou Surname
Approximately 84 people bear this surname
Gidou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 44 | 1:93,065 | 5,851 |
| Papua New Guinea | 34 | 1:239,815 | 32,925 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
Gidou (13) may also be a first name.
Gidou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gidou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gidou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺟﺪﻭ) is most common in Mauritania. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gidou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,047,559th most frequent surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 86,756,499 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 57 percent of Gidou reside; 54 percent reside in West Africa and 52 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Gidou is also the 3,159,357th most widely held given name in the world. It is borne by 13 people.
Gidou is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 93,065. In Mauritania it is mostly concentrated in: Assaba Region, where 77 percent are found, Tagant Region, where 20 percent are found and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 2 percent are found. Excluding Mauritania Gidou occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 40 percent are found and Algeria, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gidou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gidou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺟﺪﻭ | jdw | - |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Gidou
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