Wokou Surname
Approximately 551 people bear this surname
Wokou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 396 | 1:26,100 | 3,496 |
| Uganda | 140 | 1:278,852 | 19,916 |
| Ivory Coast | 10 | 1:2,307,123 | 39,352 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Wokou (74) may also be a first name.
Wokou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wokou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wokou is found in Benin more than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wokou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wokou is the 572,152nd most frequently used family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 13,226,036 people. The surname Wokou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Wokou live; 73 percent live in West Africa and 73 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Wokou is also the 1,125,792nd most commonly used first name internationally, borne by 74 people.
Wokou is most commonly used in Benin, where it is borne by 396 people, or 1 in 26,100. In Benin Wokou is most frequent in: Zou Department, where 89 percent reside, Borgou Department, where 4 percent reside and Collines Department, where 3 percent reside. Outside of Benin this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 25 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 2 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 Wokou
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