Tangou Surname
Approximately 615 people bear this surname
Tangou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congo | 438 | 1:11,391 | 1,505 |
| Niger | 92 | 1:208,609 | 6,974 |
| Cameroon | 40 | 1:519,227 | 41,500 |
| Cyprus | 14 | 1:63,205 | 6,078 |
| Benin | 13 | 1:795,046 | 42,452 |
| Taiwan | 7 | 1:3,349,249 | 20,155 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Tangou (438) may also be a first name.
Tangou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tangou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tangou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻘﻮ) is carried by more people in The Congo than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Tangou.
How Common Is The Last Name Tangou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tangou is the 526,921st most widely held family name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 11,849,668 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Tangou reside; 76 percent reside in Central Africa and 75 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Tangou is also the 409,668th most frequent first name world-wide, borne by 438 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in The Congo, where it is carried by 438 people, or 1 in 11,391. In The Congo it is mostly concentrated in: Niari Department, where 76 percent reside, Brazzaville Department, where 19 percent reside and Cuvette Department, where 2 percent reside. Barring The Congo this surname is found in 13 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 15 percent reside and Cameroon, where 7 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tangou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tangou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﻘﻮ | tnqw | - |
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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 Tangou
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