Nahou Surname
Approximately 253 people bear this surname
Nahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 110 | 1:93,960 | 10,816 |
| Ivory Coast | 82 | 1:281,356 | 10,805 |
| Niger | 25 | 1:767,681 | 17,983 |
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1 | 1:24,375,369 | 195,128 |
Nahou (439) may also be a first name.
Nahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nahou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻨﺤﻮ) occurs most in Benin. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nahou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,006,539th most commonly occurring family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 28,804,529 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Nahou reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 52 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 409,203rd most common forename internationally It is held by 439 people.
The last name is most widely held in Benin, where it is held by 110 people, or 1 in 93,960. In Benin it is most numerous in: Zou Department, where 35 percent reside, Atlantique Department, where 15 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 15 percent reside. Apart from Benin it is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 32 percent reside and Niger, where 10 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nahou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nahou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻨﺤﻮ | alnhw | 75 |
| ﺍﻧﺤﻮ | anhw | 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 Nahou
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