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 last name Tengou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻜﻮ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Tengou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tengou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tengou is the 1,612,213th most common last name internationally, held by around 1 in 58,300,367 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Tengou are found; 85 percent are found in West Africa and 70 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 345,974th most common first name throughout the world. It is borne by 585 people.
It is most common in Cameroon, where it is held by 94 people, or 1 in 220,948. In Cameroon Tengou is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 85 percent live, North Region, where 7 percent live and Littoral Region, where 2 percent live. Barring Cameroon Tengou is found in 10 countries. It also occurs 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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