Kedou Surname
Approximately 565 people bear this surname
Kedou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Cameroon | 15 | 1:1,384,605 | 80,726 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Mauritania | 4 | 1:1,023,716 | 25,172 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kedou (67) may also be a first name.
Kedou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kedou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kedou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺪﻭ) is held by more people in Togo than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kedou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 561,353rd most prevalent surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 12,898,311 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kedou live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,191,548th most frequently occurring first name internationally It is held by 67 people.
The surname Kedou is most widely held in Togo, where it is carried by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Without taking into account Togo it occurs in 10 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 3 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kedou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kedou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺪﻭ | kdw | - |
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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 Kedou
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