Wangou Surname
Approximately 248 people bear this surname
Wangou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 172 | 1:120,750 | 13,818 |
| Taiwan | 39 | 1:601,147 | 4,434 |
| Benin | 16 | 1:645,975 | 38,126 |
| Burkina Faso | 14 | 1:1,310,864 | 11,575 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wangou (23) may also be a first name.
Wangou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wangou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wangou occurs in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wangou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wangou is the 1,020,242nd most commonly occurring last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 29,385,266 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 83 percent of Wangou live; 66 percent live in Central Africa and 65 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 23 people.
The last name is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is held by 172 people, or 1 in 120,750. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: Littoral Region, where 50 percent reside, Centre Region, where 19 percent reside and West Region, where 19 percent reside. Apart from Cameroon Wangou occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Taiwan, where 16 percent reside and Benin, where 6 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
- 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 Wangou
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