Sekou Surname
Approximately 18,550 people bear this surname
Sekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 6,866 | 1:3,360 | 320 |
| Benin | 4,172 | 1:2,477 | 296 |
| Togo | 2,205 | 1:3,287 | 494 |
| Niger | 2,142 | 1:8,960 | 690 |
| Egypt | 824 | 1:111,573 | 9,244 |
| Liberia | 601 | 1:7,335 | 864 |
| Chad | 578 | 1:23,516 | 2,818 |
| Mali | 323 | 1:52,536 | 1,331 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Burkina Faso | 167 | 1:109,893 | 3,305 |
| Cameroon | 145 | 1:143,235 | 15,918 |
| France | 74 | 1:897,604 | 104,173 |
| United States | 58 | 1:6,249,292 | 299,206 |
| Guinea | 34 | 1:348,053 | 1,137 |
| DR Congo | 34 | 1:2,172,929 | 106,971 |
| Nigeria | 8 | 1:22,142,845 | 310,552 |
| Belgium | 8 | 1:1,437,080 | 92,692 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 7 | 1:15,768 | 2,111 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
The alternate forms: Sékou (1) are calculated separately.
Sekou (215,902) may also be a first name.
Sekou Demographics
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Sekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sekou (Arabic: سيكو, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﻜﻮ) is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Sékou. Click here for other possible spellings of Sekou.
How Common Is The Last Name Sekou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sekou is the 28,951st most frequent surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 392,860 people. The last name Sekou is primarily found in Africa, where 89 percent of Sekou live; 84 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 4,849th most numerous first name world-wide, held by 215,902 people.
The last name is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 6,866 people, or 1 in 3,360. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 26 percent reside, Montagnes District, where 19 percent reside and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 11 percent reside. Beside The Ivory Coast Sekou occurs in 33 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 22 percent reside and Togo, where 12 percent reside.
Sekou Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sekou surname are 6.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 60% being registered with the political party.
Sekou earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 24.55% less than the national average, earning $32,558 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sekou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sekou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﻜﻮ | sykw | 60 |
| ﺳﻜﻮ | skw | 40 |
| Sekou in the Arabic language | ||
| سيكو | sykw | - |
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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 Sekou
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