Tengou Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Tengou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 94 | 1:220,948 | 22,265 |
| Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Tengou (585) may also be a first name.
Tengou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tengou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tengou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻜﻮ) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as:. For other possible spellings of Tengou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tengou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,612,213th most frequently occurring last name internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. The surname Tengou is primarily found in Africa, where 91 percent of Tengou live; 85 percent live in West Africa and 70 percent live in Chadic Africa. Tengou is also the 345,974th most numerous first name in the world, borne by 585 people.
The surname Tengou is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 220,948. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 85 percent live, North Region, where 7 percent live and Littoral Region, where 2 percent live. Besides Cameroon Tengou occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 10 percent live and Mauritania, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tengou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tengou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﻜﻮ | tnkw | 83.33 |
| ﺍﺗﻨﻜﻮ | atnkw | 16.67 |
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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 Tengou
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