Mehou Surname
Approximately 2,494 people bear this surname
Mehou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 2,397 | 1:4,312 | 569 |
| Ivory Coast | 53 | 1:435,306 | 14,482 |
| France | 13 | 1:5,109,440 | 259,941 |
| Nigeria | 9 | 1:19,682,529 | 291,344 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
The alternate forms: Mèhou (1) are calculated separately.
Mehou (171) may also be a first name.
Mehou Demographics
Average Mehou Salary in
United States
$27,042 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Mehou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mehou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mehou is found most frequently in Benin. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Mèhou. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mehou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 172,486th most frequent last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 2,922,031 people. The last name Mehou occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Mehou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 698,971st most numerous first name in the world, held by 171 people.
The surname is most widespread in Benin, where it is held by 2,397 people, or 1 in 4,312. In Benin it is most common in: Zou Department, where 42 percent reside, Mono Department, where 18 percent reside and Collines Department, where 15 percent reside. Apart from Benin this surname exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 2 percent reside and France, where 1 percent reside.
Mehou Last Name Statistics demography
Mehou earn a lot less than the average income. In United States they earn 37.33% less than the national average, earning $27,042 USD per year.
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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 Mehou
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