Silou Surname
Approximately 512 people bear this surname
Silou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 199 | 1:25,071 | 2,722 |
| Egypt | 153 | 1:600,887 | 32,813 |
| France | 53 | 1:1,253,259 | 128,888 |
| Papua New Guinea | 44 | 1:185,312 | 25,733 |
| Benin | 14 | 1:738,257 | 40,906 |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1:2,457,852 | 95,442 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
Silou (95) may also be a first name.
Silou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Silou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Silou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻴﻠﻮ) is most common in The Congo. It can also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Silou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 605,571st most frequently occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 14,233,488 people. The last name Silou is primarily found in Africa, where 74 percent of Silou reside; 39 percent reside in Central Africa and 39 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Silou is also the 974,243rd most commonly held given name throughout the world It is held by 95 people.
The last name is most commonly used in The Congo, where it is carried by 199 people, or 1 in 25,071. In The Congo Silou is most frequent in: Brazzaville Department, where 90 percent reside, Cuvette-Ouest Department, where 5 percent reside and Pool Department, where 2 percent reside. Besides The Congo this last name is found in 20 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 30 percent reside and France, where 10 percent reside.
Silou Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Silou has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name contracted 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Silou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Silou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻴﻠﻮ | sylw | - |
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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 Silou
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