Weddou Surname
Approximately 241 people bear this surname
Weddou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 240 | 1:17,062 | 1,590 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Weddou (105) may also be a first name.
Weddou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Weddou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Weddou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﺩﻭ) is found most in Mauritania. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Weddou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Weddou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,041,601st most commonly used family name globally It is held by around 1 in 30,238,780 people. Weddou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Weddou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Weddou is also the 920,134th most widely held first name at a global level, borne by 105 people.
The surname is most widely held in Mauritania, where it is held by 240 people, or 1 in 17,062. In Mauritania Weddou is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 39 percent reside, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 18 percent reside and Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 10 percent reside. Apart from Mauritania this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Morocco, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Weddou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Weddou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﺩﻭ | wdw | 96.46 |
| ﻭﺩ | wd | 3.54 |
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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 Weddou
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