Voudou Surname
Approximately 648 people bear this surname
Voudou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| Cameroon | 11 | 1:1,888,097 | 98,267 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
Voudou (73) may also be a first name.
Voudou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Voudou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Voudou is found most in Togo. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Voudou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Voudou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 506,165th most frequently used family name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 11,246,213 people. The surname Voudou is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Voudou live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Voudou is also the 1,134,117th most commonly used first name on earth, held by 73 people.
It is most common in Togo, where it is carried by 630 people, or 1 in 11,504. Other than Togo Voudou is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 2 percent are found and The Congo, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Voudou
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