Mekou Surname
Approximately 2,087 people bear this surname
Mekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2,019 | 1:10,287 | 1,366 |
| Benin | 54 | 1:191,400 | 18,375 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Mékôũ (1) are calculated separately.
Mekou (48) may also be a first name.
Mekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekou is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also appear as a variant: Mékôũ. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 200,066th most commonly held last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 3,491,876 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Mekou live; 97 percent live in Central Africa and 78 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mekou is also the 1,448,253rd most frequently occurring first name in the world It is held by 48 people.
The last name Mekou is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 2,019 people, or 1 in 10,287. In Cameroon it is most numerous in: Centre Region, where 48 percent live, West Region, where 17 percent live and South Region, where 15 percent live. Not including Cameroon Mekou is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 3 percent live and The Congo, where 0 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
- 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 Mekou
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