Keou Surname
Approximately 700 people bear this surname
Keou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 627 | 1:33,125 | 4,472 |
| United States | 23 | 1:15,759,084 | 542,937 |
| Benin | 13 | 1:795,046 | 42,452 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
The alternate forms: Kéou (5) are calculated separately.
Keou (1,075) may also be a first name.
Keou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Keou is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Kéou. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Keou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 477,400th most commonly occurring last name in the world It is held by around 1 in 10,410,780 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Keou live; 90 percent live in Central Africa and 90 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 243,766th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 1,075 people.
The surname Keou is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 627 people, or 1 in 33,125. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Littoral Region, where 37 percent are found, West Region, where 33 percent are found and Centre Region, where 22 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon Keou occurs in 20 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 3 percent are found and Benin, where 2 percent are found.
Keou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Keou has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Keou last name rose 767 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Keou
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