Lamou Surname
Approximately 1,553 people bear this surname
Lamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 968 | 1:21,456 | 2,923 |
| Guinea | 158 | 1:74,898 | 773 |
| France | 104 | 1:638,680 | 83,098 |
| Benin | 68 | 1:151,994 | 15,721 |
| Niger | 57 | 1:336,702 | 9,822 |
| Spain | 47 | 1:994,724 | 37,216 |
| Mauritania | 32 | 1:127,964 | 7,422 |
| Ivory Coast | 32 | 1:720,976 | 19,991 |
| Netherlands | 26 | 1:649,507 | 53,972 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Burkina Faso | 4 | 1:4,588,025 | 21,573 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Lamou (2,510) may also be a first name.
Lamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Lamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻻﻣﻮ) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lamou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 254,336th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 4,692,560 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Lamou are found; 57 percent are found in West Africa and 25 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Lamou is also the 147,280th most frequent forename throughout the world, held by 2,510 people.
The surname is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 968 people, or 1 in 21,456. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 41 percent live, North Region, where 37 percent live and Adamawa Region, where 13 percent live. Other than Cameroon this last name occurs in 27 countries. It also occurs in Guinea, where 10 percent live and France, where 7 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lamou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lamou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻻﻣﻮ | lamw | 77.78 |
| ﻻﻣﻪ | lamh | 11.11 |
| ﺍﻻﻡ | alam | 11.11 |
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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 Lamou
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