Guelou Surname
Approximately 704 people bear this surname
Guelou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 352 | 1:65,543 | 3,758 |
| France | 321 | 1:206,924 | 32,150 |
| Benin | 18 | 1:574,200 | 35,798 |
| Algeria | 7 | 1:5,518,793 | 51,529 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Guelou (548) may also be a first name.
Guelou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guelou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Guelou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻠﻮ) is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Guelou? popularity and diffusion
Guelou is the 475,239th most common surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 10,351,628 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 51 percent of Guelou are found; 50 percent are found in West Africa and 46 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. Guelou is also the 359,856th most commonly held first name in the world, held by 548 people.
The last name is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 352 people, or 1 in 65,543. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 89 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 6 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 3 percent are found. Outside of The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in France, where 46 percent are found and Benin, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Guelou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Guelou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻠﻮ | klw | 42.86 |
| ﻛﻞ | kl | 28.57 |
| ﻛﻠﻪ | klh | 14.29 |
| ﻗﻠﻮﺍ | qlwa | 14.29 |
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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 Guelou
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