Mintou Surname
Approximately 124 people bear this surname
Mintou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 69 | 1:278,145 | 8,561 |
| Papua New Guinea | 26 | 1:313,604 | 42,091 |
| Benin | 11 | 1:939,600 | 46,216 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Mintou (14,288) may also be a first name.
Mintou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mintou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Mintou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻨﺖ) is found most frequently in Niger. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Mintou.
How Common Is The Last Name Mintou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,620,164th most common family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 58,770,532 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 75 percent of Mintou live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 47,946th most widely held forename on earth. It is borne by 14,288 people.
The surname Mintou is most widely held in Niger, where it is borne by 69 people, or 1 in 278,145. In Niger Mintou is most frequent in: Tillabéri Region, where 52 percent reside, Dosso Region, where 25 percent reside and Niamey Capital District, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Niger this last name occurs in 6 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 21 percent reside and Benin, where 9 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mintou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mintou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻨﺖ | mnt | 65.41 |
| ﻣﻨﺘﻮ | mntw | 22.01 |
| ﻣﻨﺔ | mnt | 4.4 |
| ﺑﻨﺖ | bnt | 3.14 |
| ﻣﻴﻨﺘﻮ | myntw | 2.52 |
| ﺍﻣﻨﺔ | amnt | 1.26 |
| ﻣﻴﻨﺔ | mynt | 0.63 |
| ﺁﻣﻨﺔ | amnt | 0.63 |
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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 Mintou
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