Vaou Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Vaou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 26 | 1:426,146 | 56,152 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| Mauritania | 5 | 1:818,973 | 23,459 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Vaou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vaou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Vaou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻮ) is found in Greece more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vaou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Vaou is the 2,843,861st most commonly held family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 57 percent of Vaou live; 55 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 55 percent live in Helleno-Europe.
It is most frequently held in Greece, where it is held by 26 people, or 1 in 426,146. In Greece Vaou is mostly found in: Attica, where 100 percent live. Barring Greece this surname exists in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 26 percent live and Mauritania, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vaou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vaou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻮ | fw | - |
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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 Vaou
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