Salikou Surname
Approximately 139 people bear this surname
Salikou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 62 | 1:372,117 | 13,068 |
| Benin | 50 | 1:206,712 | 19,428 |
| Niger | 11 | 1:1,744,729 | 34,351 |
| Burkina Faso | 9 | 1:2,039,122 | 15,494 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
Salikou (1,923) may also be a first name.
Salikou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Salikou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Salikou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﺎﻟﻴﻜﻮ) occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It may also appear as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Salikou? popularity and diffusion
Salikou is the 1,504,764th most widely held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 52,428,388 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Salikou live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 76 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 173,126th most frequently used first name world-wide It is held by 1,923 people.
The last name Salikou is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 62 people, or 1 in 372,117. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Savanes District, where 47 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 23 percent are found and Lacs District, where 10 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 36 percent are found and Niger, where 8 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Salikou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Salikou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﺎﻟﻴﻜﻮ | salykw | 75 |
| ﺳﺎﻟﻜﻮ | salkw | 25 |
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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 Salikou
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