Tawou Surname
Approximately 123 people bear this surname
Tawou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 74 | 1:110,185 | 14,934 |
| Cameroon | 30 | 1:692,302 | 50,404 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Tawou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tawou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Tawou occurs most in Papua New Guinea. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tawou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,628,521st most numerous family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 59,248,341 people. The surname Tawou is mostly found in Oceania, where 60 percent of Tawou are found; 60 percent are found in Oceania Islands and 60 percent are found in Papuan Oceania.
This last name is most commonly held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 74 people, or 1 in 110,185. In Papua New Guinea Tawou is most common in: West Sepik, where 100 percent are found. Aside from Papua New Guinea it occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 24 percent are found and The United States, where 8 percent are found.
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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 Tawou
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