Tenou Surname
Approximately 1,663 people bear this surname
Tenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 1,050 | 1:6,903 | 1,501 |
| Benin | 312 | 1:33,127 | 4,331 |
| Ivory Coast | 135 | 1:170,898 | 7,689 |
| Mauritania | 100 | 1:40,949 | 3,140 |
| France | 28 | 1:2,372,240 | 182,981 |
| Cameroon | 20 | 1:1,038,453 | 65,513 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Kiribati | 1 | 1:113,407 | 1,341 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
Tenou (146) may also be a first name.
Tenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Tenou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺗﻨﻮ) is carried by more people in Togo than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Tenou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Tenou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 240,523rd most widely held family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 4,382,168 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Tenou are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 89 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 763,528th most widely held first name world-wide, held by 146 people.
The last name is most numerous in Togo, where it is carried by 1,050 people, or 1 in 6,903. Beside Togo this last name occurs in 18 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 19 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Tenou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tenou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺗﻨﻮ | tnw | 96 |
| ﺗﻦ | tn | 4 |
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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 Tenou
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