Vekou Surname
Approximately 20 people bear this surname
Vekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
Vekou (10) may also be a first name.
Vekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Vekou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻓﻜﻮ) is found most frequently in Mauritania. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Vekou.
How Common Is The Last Name Vekou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Vekou is the 4,427,875th most commonly used surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name Vekou occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Vekou reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 90 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Vekou is also the 3,684,242nd most widespread first name globally, borne by 10 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Mauritania, where it is carried by 18 people, or 1 in 227,492. In Mauritania it is mostly found in: Tagant Region, where 61 percent live, Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 28 percent live and Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 6 percent live. Other than Mauritania Vekou exists in one country. It is also common in Greece, where 10 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vekou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vekou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻓﻜﻮ | fkw | 57.14 |
| ﻓﻚ | fk | 28.57 |
| ﺍﻓﻜﻮ | afkw | 14.29 |
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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 Vekou
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