Wekou Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Wekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 8 | 1:1,291,950 | 54,095 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wekou (30) may also be a first name.
Wekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wekou has its highest incidence in Benin. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Wekou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wekou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,649,889th most frequently held surname at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Wekou reside; 50 percent reside in West Africa and 44 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,911,214th most frequently held first name throughout the world, held by 30 people.
Wekou is most prevalent in Benin, where it is held by 8 people, or 1 in 1,291,950. In Benin it is most prevalent in: Borgou Department, where 88 percent live and Atakora Department, where 13 percent live. Beside Benin this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 44 percent live and Senegal, where 6 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 Wekou
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