Nehou Surname
Approximately 224 people bear this surname
Nehou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 215 | 1:308,943 | 47,111 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
The alternate forms: Néhou (2) are calculated separately.
Nehou (31) may also be a first name.
Nehou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nehou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nehou is found most frequently in France. It can be rendered as a variant: Néhou. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nehou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,095,216th most commonly held last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 32,533,687 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Nehou are found; 96 percent are found in Western Europe and 96 percent are found in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 1,874,099th most frequently held first name in the world It is held by 31 people.
This last name is most commonly used in France, where it is held by 215 people, or 1 in 308,943. In France Nehou is most frequent in: Normandy, where 77 percent are found, Centre-Val de Loire, where 12 percent are found and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 6 percent are found. Beside France it occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 1 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Nehou
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