Mafou Surname
Approximately 69 people bear this surname
Mafou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 30 | 1:692,302 | 50,404 |
| Ivory Coast | 30 | 1:769,041 | 20,891 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Tuvalu | 1 | 1:11,188 | 103 |
Mafou (286) may also be a first name.
Mafou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mafou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mafou occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mafou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Mafou is the 2,293,424th most numerous last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 105,616,607 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Mafou reside; 41 percent reside in Central Africa and 29 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Mafou is also the 523,065th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 286 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is held by 30 people, or 1 in 692,302. In Cameroon Mafou is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 43 percent live, Littoral Region, where 33 percent live and West Region, where 13 percent live. Aside from Cameroon Mafou is found in 9 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 43 percent live and The United States, where 3 percent live.
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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 Mafou
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