Molou Surname
Approximately 1,844 people bear this surname
Molou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,159 | 1:19,906 | 1,502 |
| Indonesia | 239 | 1:553,344 | 44,561 |
| Cameroon | 118 | 1:176,009 | 18,652 |
| Guinea | 103 | 1:114,891 | 869 |
| Papua New Guinea | 49 | 1:166,402 | 23,077 |
| Greece | 42 | 1:263,805 | 39,714 |
| France | 38 | 1:1,747,966 | 156,445 |
| Madagascar | 36 | 1:656,940 | 2,016 |
| Solomon Islands | 20 | 1:29,001 | 5,821 |
| Canada | 8 | 1:4,605,699 | 220,704 |
| Benin | 7 | 1:1,476,515 | 57,381 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| Vanuatu | 4 | 1:65,819 | 1,151 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Molou (886) may also be a first name.
Molou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Molou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Molou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻣﻮﻟﻮ) is more commonly found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Molou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Molou is the 221,309th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 3,952,031 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 69 percent of Molou live; 59 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 273,104th most common given name on earth, held by 886 people.
This surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 1,159 people, or 1 in 19,906. In The Ivory Coast Molou is primarily concentrated in: Lacs District, where 29 percent are found, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent are found and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 15 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 26 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 13 percent are found and Cameroon, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Molou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Molou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻣﻮﻟﻮ | mwlw | - |
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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 Molou
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