Tagou Surname
Approximately 518 people bear this surname
Tagou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 241 | 1:86,179 | 10,438 |
| Niger | 160 | 1:119,950 | 4,692 |
| Papua New Guinea | 57 | 1:143,048 | 19,694 |
| Benin | 36 | 1:287,100 | 24,014 |
| Malaysia | 15 | 1:1,966,282 | 78,777 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 1:323,354 | 10,053 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
Tagou (149) may also be a first name.
Tagou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tagou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tagou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﺎﻛﻮ) is most common in Cameroon. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tagou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 600,164th most widely held family name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 14,068,621 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 86 percent of Tagou reside; 46 percent reside in Central Africa and 44 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Tagou is also the 754,880th most frequently occurring forename throughout the world. It is borne by 149 people.
This surname is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 241 people, or 1 in 86,179. In Cameroon Tagou is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 50 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 23 percent reside and West Region, where 17 percent reside. Other than Cameroon Tagou exists in 10 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 31 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tagou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tagou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﺎﻛﻮ | takw | 75 |
| ﺗﺎﺝ | taj | 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
- 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 Tagou
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