Nyamou Surname
Approximately 50 people bear this surname
Nyamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 48 | 1:432,689 | 36,488 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Nyamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nyamou is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyamou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,746,821st most frequently used family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. Nyamou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyamou are found; 96 percent are found in Central Africa and 90 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
Nyamou is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 48 people, or 1 in 432,689. In Cameroon it is mostly found in: Centre Region, where 71 percent live, Littoral Region, where 21 percent live and East Region, where 6 percent live. Outside of Cameroon Nyamou exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 2 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 2 percent live.
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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
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