Pengou Surname
Approximately 162 people bear this surname
Pengou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 156 | 1:133,135 | 14,968 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Pengou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pengou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Pengou is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pengou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,364,059th most widespread last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 44,984,851 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Pengou are found; 96 percent are found in Central Africa and 96 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa.
The last name Pengou is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 156 people, or 1 in 133,135. In Cameroon it is most common in: Centre Region, where 62 percent live, West Region, where 20 percent live and Littoral Region, where 17 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Taiwan, where 2 percent live and Argentina, where 1 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
- 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 Pengou
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