Wedou Surname
Approximately 457 people bear this surname
Wedou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 453 | 1:9,039 | 956 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Wedou (278) may also be a first name.
Wedou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wedou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wedou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻭﺩﻭ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wedou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 658,434th most commonly used surname at a global level, held by around 1 in 15,946,490 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Wedou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Wedou is also the 532,586th most commonly used first name at a global level, held by 278 people.
The surname Wedou is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is carried by 453 people, or 1 in 9,039. In Mauritania Wedou is most frequent in: Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, where 20 percent reside, Trarza Region, where 17 percent reside and Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 16 percent reside. Aside from Mauritania this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 0 percent reside and Liberia, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Wedou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Wedou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻭﺩﻭ | wdw | 86.48 |
| ﻭﺩ | wd | 12.3 |
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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 Wedou
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