Negou Surname
Approximately 1,167 people bear this surname
Negou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 963 | 1:21,567 | 2,937 |
| Algeria | 193 | 1:200,163 | 23,806 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
Negou (35) may also be a first name.
Negou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Negou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Negou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﻨﻜﻮﺍ) is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Negou? popularity and diffusion
Negou is the 320,306th most frequently occurring surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 6,244,684 people. The last name Negou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Negou live; 82 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,744,716th most common first name at a global level, borne by 35 people.
Negou is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 963 people, or 1 in 21,567. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: West Region, where 45 percent reside, Centre Region, where 35 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 15 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this last name exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 17 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Negou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Negou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﻨﻜﻮﺍ | alnkwa | 50 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻜﻮ | alnkw | 50 |
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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 Negou
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