Mazou Surname
Approximately 4,985 people bear this surname
Mazou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 2,153 | 1:8,914 | 687 |
| Cameroon | 742 | 1:27,991 | 3,802 |
| Ivory Coast | 589 | 1:39,170 | 2,560 |
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| Benin | 451 | 1:22,917 | 3,075 |
| France | 212 | 1:313,315 | 47,708 |
| Burkina Faso | 52 | 1:352,925 | 5,799 |
| Greece | 36 | 1:307,772 | 44,531 |
| Switzerland | 32 | 1:256,654 | 21,165 |
| Mauritania | 32 | 1:127,964 | 7,422 |
| Congo | 22 | 1:226,777 | 8,465 |
| Zimbabwe | 21 | 1:735,154 | 52,165 |
| China | 13 | 1:105,178,582 | 5,529 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Mali | 9 | 1:1,885,448 | 1,868 |
| Iran | 8 | 1:9,597,816 | 173,045 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Mazou (5,433) may also be a first name.
Mazou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mazou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Mazou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﺎﺯﻭ) is found most in Niger. It may be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mazou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 95,453rd most commonly used family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,461,895 people. Mazou is mostly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Mazou are found; 85 percent are found in West Africa and 58 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 91,258th most common forename at a global level, borne by 5,433 people.
This surname is most numerous in Niger, where it is held by 2,153 people, or 1 in 8,914. In Niger Mazou is mostly concentrated in: Tillabéri Region, where 64 percent live, Niamey Capital District, where 12 percent live and Dosso Region, where 7 percent live. Not including Niger this last name exists in 31 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 15 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 12 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mazou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mazou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﺎﺯﻭ | mazw | 68.75 |
| ﻣﻌﺰﻭ | mzw | 31.25 |
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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 Mazou
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