Tennou Surname
Approximately 119 people bear this surname
Tennou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 96 | 1:216,344 | 21,934 |
| Mauritania | 17 | 1:240,874 | 11,443 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Tennou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tennou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tennou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻮ) is most common in Cameroon. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tennou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,666,404th most frequent surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 61,239,882 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Tennou live; 81 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Central Bantu Africa.
This surname is most frequently held in Cameroon, where it is held by 96 people, or 1 in 216,344. In Cameroon Tennou is most numerous in: Littoral Region, where 43 percent live, Centre Region, where 34 percent live and West Region, where 17 percent live. Apart from Cameroon this surname is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 14 percent live and Poland, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tennou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tennou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﻮ | tnw | 75 |
| ﺍﻟﺘﻦ | altn | 12.5 |
| ﺗﻦ | tn | 12.5 |
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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 Tennou
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