Taou Surname
Approximately 1,182 people bear this surname
Taou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 832 | 1:24,963 | 3,399 |
| Ivory Coast | 266 | 1:86,734 | 4,640 |
| Benin | 29 | 1:356,400 | 27,355 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Indonesia | 8 | 1:16,531,149 | 488,268 |
| Israel | 5 | 1:1,711,527 | 84,568 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Taou (247) may also be a first name.
Taou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Taou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Taou is found most in Cameroon. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Taou.
How Common Is The Last Name Taou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 317,070th most commonly occurring surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 6,165,436 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Taou reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 64 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 567,531st most prevalent first name worldwide, borne by 247 people.
The last name Taou is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 832 people, or 1 in 24,963. In Cameroon Taou is most frequent in: North Region, where 93 percent reside, Far North Region, where 4 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Cameroon it exists in 21 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 23 percent reside and Benin, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Taou
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