Kafou Surname
Approximately 468 people bear this surname
Kafou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 307 | 1:112,300 | 19,480 |
| France | 38 | 1:1,747,966 | 156,445 |
| Niger | 36 | 1:533,112 | 13,750 |
| Benin | 28 | 1:369,129 | 27,947 |
| Cameroon | 21 | 1:989,003 | 63,570 |
| Libya | 16 | 1:390,248 | 1,390 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kafou (189) may also be a first name.
Kafou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kafou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kafou occurs more in Morocco more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kafou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kafou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 646,966th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 15,571,679 people. Kafou occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Kafou are found; 69 percent are found in North Africa and 66 percent are found in Mahgreb. It is also the 661,310th most frequently held forename at a global level, held by 189 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Morocco, where it is carried by 307 people, or 1 in 112,300. Other than Morocco this surname exists in 19 countries. It also occurs in France, where 8 percent live and Niger, where 8 percent live.
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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 Kafou
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