Kowou Surname
Approximately 2,333 people bear this surname
Kowou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 2,100 | 1:3,451 | 531 |
| Guinea | 141 | 1:83,928 | 813 |
| Benin | 48 | 1:215,325 | 19,968 |
| Liberia | 30 | 1:146,951 | 10,677 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kowou (37) may also be a first name.
Kowou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kowou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kowou has its highest incidence in Togo. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Kowou.
How Common Is The Last Name Kowou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 182,229th most common surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 3,123,680 people. Kowou is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kowou are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 92 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,688,769th most frequent first name internationally, held by 37 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Togo, where it is held by 2,100 people, or 1 in 3,451. Outside of Togo it occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Guinea, where 6 percent are found and Benin, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Kowou
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