Pretou Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Pretou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 35 | 1:659,178 | 18,915 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Pretou (26) may also be a first name.
Pretou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pretou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Pretou is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Pretou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Pretou is the 3,274,477th most commonly held family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 64 percent of Pretou reside; 64 percent reside in West Africa and 64 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Pretou is also the 2,084,397th most widely held first name throughout the world It is held by 26 people.
The last name Pretou is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 35 people, or 1 in 659,178. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Lagunes District, where 57 percent reside, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 34 percent reside and Bas-Sassandra District, where 3 percent reside. Beside The Ivory Coast this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in France, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Pretou
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