Poryou Surname

7,117,718th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Liberia
Highest density in:
Liberia

Poryou Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Poryou Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Liberia61:734,75629,369
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426

Poryou Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Poryou Come From? nationality or country of origin

Poryou is more frequently found in Liberia than any other country or territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Poryou? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 7,117,718th most numerous last name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Poryou live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Anglo-West Africa.

The surname Poryou is most commonly used in Liberia, where it is held by 6 people, or 1 in 734,756. In Liberia Poryou is most frequent in: Rivercess County, where 100 percent are found. Barring Liberia this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 14 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pooryou921/
Pouryouz8673/
Poryeous861/
Poroju8325/
Poriou832/
Paryou832/
Pouroju77161/
Potroju774/
Porgiou771/
Poreous771/
Potryus771/
Paryu732/
Porju731/
Pouriouz711/
Pourroju711/
Periou67442/
Poriau67215/
Pariou6722/
Périou6719/
Parjou674/
Potrju673/
Paryus672/
Pareou671/
Poorju671/
Poruju671/
Porius670/

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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 Poryou
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