Salawou Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Salawou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 19 | 1:543,979 | 34,804 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Salawou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Salawou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Salawou is found most in Benin. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Salawou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,776,799th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Salawou live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Salawou is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is held by 19 people, or 1 in 543,979. In Benin it is most numerous in: Alibori Department, where 32 percent are found, Ouémé Department, where 32 percent are found and Borgou Department, where 11 percent are found. Excluding Benin this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 18 percent are found and Cameroon, where 14 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 Salawou
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