Gourou Surname
Approximately 2,030 people bear this surname
Gourou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 1,086 | 1:35,572 | 6,457 |
| Burkina Faso | 256 | 1:71,688 | 2,695 |
| Morocco | 239 | 1:144,251 | 25,171 |
| Cameroon | 188 | 1:110,474 | 12,870 |
| Niger | 57 | 1:336,702 | 9,822 |
| Benin | 53 | 1:195,011 | 18,621 |
| New Caledonia | 52 | 1:5,312 | 1,081 |
| Ivory Coast | 43 | 1:536,540 | 16,589 |
| France | 30 | 1:2,214,091 | 176,965 |
| Chad | 9 | 1:1,510,244 | 5,402 |
| Senegal | 7 | 1:2,082,763 | 4,662 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Greece | 3 | 1:3,693,263 | 126,191 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Gourou (313) may also be a first name.
Gourou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gourou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gourou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﺭﻭ) is found most in Algeria. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gourou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 204,617th most frequently occurring surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 3,589,924 people. Gourou is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Gourou live; 65 percent live in North Africa and 65 percent live in Mahgreb. It is also the 496,565th most frequently used forename throughout the world It is held by 313 people.
Gourou is most widely held in Algeria, where it is carried by 1,086 people, or 1 in 35,572. In Algeria it is most common in: Algiers Province, where 87 percent reside, Médéa Province, where 13 percent reside and Blida Province, where 0 percent reside. Aside from Algeria this last name is found in 16 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 13 percent reside and Morocco, where 12 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gourou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gourou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﺭﻭ | kwrw | 66.67 |
| ﻛﻮﺭ | kwr | 33.33 |
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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 Gourou
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