Matouke Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Matouke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 95 | 1:218,622 | 22,080 |
| Mauritania | 12 | 1:341,239 | 14,334 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Matouke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Matouke Come From? nationality or country of origin
Matouke (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻌﺘﻮﻙ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Matouke click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Matouke? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,746,159th most commonly used family name globally It is held by around 1 in 66,250,417 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Matouke live; 85 percent live in Central Africa and 85 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 95 people, or 1 in 218,622. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 48 percent are found, Centre Region, where 42 percent are found and Southwest Region, where 2 percent are found. Excluding Cameroon this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 11 percent are found and Algeria, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Matouke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Matouke in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻌﺘﻮﻙ | mtwk | 80 |
| ﻣﻌﺘﻮﻕ | mtwq | 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
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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 Matouke
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