Maimou Surname
Approximately 164 people bear this surname
Maimou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 59 | 1:325,288 | 9,578 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Greece | 26 | 1:426,146 | 56,152 |
| Burkina Faso | 24 | 1:764,671 | 8,666 |
| Mauritania | 24 | 1:170,619 | 9,051 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Maimou (5,761) may also be a first name.
Maimou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Maimou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Maimou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻴﻤﻮ, Hindi: मैमौ) is held by more people in Niger than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Maimou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,353,468th most frequently occurring family name globally, held by around 1 in 44,436,256 people. The surname Maimou is mostly found in Africa, where 68 percent of Maimou live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 37 percent live in Chadic Africa. Maimou is also the 87,951st most frequent given name worldwide, borne by 5,761 people.
This surname is most frequently used in Niger, where it is held by 59 people, or 1 in 325,288. In Niger it is most numerous in: Tahoua Region, where 56 percent reside, Agadez Region, where 10 percent reside and Tillabéri Region, where 8 percent reside. Not including Niger this last name exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 16 percent reside and Greece, where 16 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Maimou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Maimou in the Hindi language | ||
| मैमौ | maimau | - |
| Maimou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻴﻤﻮ | mymw | 42.86 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﻤﻮ | amymw | 28.57 |
| ﺃﻣﻴﻢ | amym | 14.29 |
| ﺍﻣﻴﻤﻮ | amymw | 14.29 |
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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 Maimou
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