Wamou Surname
Approximately 287 people bear this surname
Wamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 142 | 1:146,261 | 16,188 |
| Niger | 122 | 1:157,312 | 5,693 |
| Benin | 19 | 1:543,979 | 34,804 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Wamou (17) may also be a first name.
Wamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wamou occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Wamou.
How Common Is The Last Name Wamou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 921,780th most commonly held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 25,392,146 people. The last name Wamou occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Wamou live; 66 percent live in West Africa and 55 percent live in Chadic Africa. Wamou is also the 2,694,839th most widely held first name globally, held by 17 people.
It is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 142 people, or 1 in 146,261. In Cameroon Wamou is most prevalent in: Far North Region, where 49 percent live, Littoral Region, where 29 percent live and North Region, where 13 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 43 percent live and Benin, where 7 percent live.
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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 Wamou
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