Woyou Surname

1,994,173rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 88 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Ivory Coast
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Woyou Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Woyou Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ivory Coast601:384,52113,351
Benin251:413,42429,829
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110

Woyou (759) may also be a first name.

Woyou Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Woyou Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Woyou is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Woyou? popularity and diffusion

The last name Woyou is the 1,994,173rd most commonly held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 82,813,022 people. The surname Woyou is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Woyou live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Woyou is also the 298,137th most frequently occurring given name worldwide It is held by 759 people.

This last name is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 60 people, or 1 in 384,521. In The Ivory Coast it is most common in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 83 percent are found, Lacs District, where 10 percent are found and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 3 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 28 percent are found and Cameroon, where 1 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
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Wheyou7316/
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Wahyou738/
Wooyue738/
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Wayyou736/
Huoyou732/
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Boyouj731/
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Vouyou731/
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Whayou731/
Wououd731/
Boyu67809/
Wahyouh67477/
Wuyu67376/
Boyahou67360/
Woju6730/
Weyu6723/
Weou675/
Wohoueu674/
Voyu674/
Ouhayou672/
Vouyoux671/
Houeyou671/
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Wheeyou671/
Whieyou671/
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Oueyoud671/
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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 Woyou
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