Lemou Surname
Approximately 10,743 people bear this surname
Lemou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 9,870 | 1:734 | 45 |
| Algeria | 438 | 1:88,200 | 13,533 |
| Benin | 213 | 1:48,524 | 6,139 |
| Niger | 106 | 1:181,057 | 6,330 |
| Greece | 57 | 1:194,382 | 30,902 |
| France | 24 | 1:2,767,613 | 196,808 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Haiti | 3 | 1:3,561,302 | 20,668 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Lémou (1) are calculated separately.
Lemou (1,727) may also be a first name.
Lemou Demographics
Average Lemou Salary in
United States
$19,250 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lemou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lemou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lemou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻤﻮ) is more frequently found in Togo than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Lémou. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lemou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lemou is the 48,068th most prevalent family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 678,353 people. The surname Lemou occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Lemou live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Lemou is also the 184,711th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 1,727 people.
The surname is most common in Togo, where it is carried by 9,870 people, or 1 in 734. Without taking into account Togo this surname is found in 17 countries. It is also common in Algeria, where 4 percent live and Benin, where 2 percent live.
Lemou Last Name Statistics demography
Lemou earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 55.39% less than the national average, earning $19,250 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lemou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lemou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻤﻮ | lmw | 80 |
| ﻟﻢ | lm | 20 |
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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 Lemou
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