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
The last name Wamou is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wamou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wamou is the 921,780th most frequently occurring surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 25,392,146 people. Wamou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Wamou reside; 66 percent reside in West Africa and 55 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Wamou is also the 2,694,839th most commonly occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 17 people.
This surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 142 people, or 1 in 146,261. In Cameroon Wamou is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 49 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 29 percent reside and North Region, where 13 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon Wamou is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 43 percent reside and Benin, where 7 percent reside.
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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 Wamou
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