Kamou Surname
Approximately 1,386 people bear this surname
Kamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Cameroon | 310 | 1:66,997 | 8,459 |
| Niger | 154 | 1:124,623 | 4,816 |
| Ivory Coast | 111 | 1:207,849 | 8,785 |
| Greece | 49 | 1:226,118 | 35,110 |
| Benin | 46 | 1:224,687 | 20,522 |
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 1:234,930 | 15,673 |
| Papua New Guinea | 36 | 1:226,492 | 31,172 |
| Guinea | 33 | 1:358,601 | 1,162 |
| New Caledonia | 21 | 1:13,153 | 3,514 |
| United States | 18 | 1:20,136,607 | 622,629 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Kamou (797) may also be a first name.
Kamou Demographics
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Kamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻣﻮ, Hindi: कमौ) is found in Togo more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kamou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kamou is the 279,018th most commonly occurring family name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,257,970 people. The surname Kamou is mostly found in Africa, where 84 percent of Kamou reside; 64 percent reside in West Africa and 46 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 289,943rd most commonly held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 797 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Togo, where it is borne by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Outside of Togo this last name is found in 31 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 22 percent are found and Niger, where 11 percent are found.
Kamou Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Kamou last name are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 100% registered to vote for the party.
Kamou earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 3.25% more than the national average, earning $44,550 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kamou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kamou in the Hindi language | ||
| कमौ | kamau | - |
| Kamou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻣﻮ | kamw | 60 |
| ﻛﺎﻡ | kam | 20 |
| ﻗﺎﻡ | qam | 20 |
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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 Kamou
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