Koyou Surname
Approximately 333 people bear this surname
Koyou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 213 | 1:97,507 | 11,577 |
| Liberia | 46 | 1:95,838 | 7,727 |
| Malaysia | 44 | 1:670,323 | 31,889 |
| Ivory Coast | 25 | 1:922,849 | 23,346 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Koyou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koyou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Koyou is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Koyou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 830,559th most commonly held surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 21,884,522 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Koyou live; 64 percent live in Central Africa and 62 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
The surname Koyou is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 213 people, or 1 in 97,507. In Cameroon Koyou is most frequent in: West Region, where 39 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 34 percent reside and Centre Region, where 23 percent reside. Excluding Cameroon this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Liberia, where 14 percent reside and Malaysia, where 13 percent reside.
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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 Koyou
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