Kerou Surname
Approximately 278 people bear this surname
Kerou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 153 | 1:864,374 | 65,003 |
| Senegal | 27 | 1:539,976 | 2,259 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Greece | 17 | 1:651,752 | 73,285 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Kérou (1) are calculated separately.
Kerou (1,592) may also be a first name.
Kerou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kerou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kerou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﻭ, Russian: Кэроу) is found in Indonesia more than any other country/territory. It may be found as: Kérou. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kerou.
How Common Is The Last Name Kerou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 942,947th most frequent surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 26,214,194 people. Kerou occurs mostly in Oceania, where 64 percent of Kerou are found; 64 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 64 percent are found in Papuan Oceania. Kerou is also the 193,745th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, held by 1,592 people.
The last name is most widely held in Indonesia, where it is carried by 153 people, or 1 in 864,374. In Indonesia it is primarily concentrated in: Papua, where 99 percent are found and West Papua, where 1 percent are found. Without taking into account Indonesia Kerou is found in 15 countries. It is also common in Senegal, where 10 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 9 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kerou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kerou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﻭ | krw | - |
| Kerou in the Russian language | ||
| Кэроу | kerou | - |
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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 Kerou
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