Yabou Surname
Approximately 319 people bear this surname
Yabou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 90 | 1:161,993 | 1,291 |
| Ivory Coast | 56 | 1:411,986 | 13,976 |
| Niger | 44 | 1:436,182 | 11,913 |
| Cameroon | 43 | 1:483,002 | 39,429 |
| Gambia | 25 | 1:76,938 | 264 |
| Mauritania | 18 | 1:227,492 | 10,961 |
| Benin | 12 | 1:861,300 | 44,192 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 1:6,117,367 | 22,156 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Yabou (534) may also be a first name.
Yabou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yabou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yabou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﺑﻮ) occurs in Senegal more than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yabou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 855,216th most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis, borne by approximately 1 in 22,844,972 people. The surname Yabou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Yabou live; 87 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Yabou is also the 364,930th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 534 people.
Yabou is most numerous in Senegal, where it is carried by 90 people, or 1 in 161,993. In Senegal it is most common in: Sédhiou Region, where 52 percent reside, Kaolack Region, where 37 percent reside and Dakar Region, where 10 percent reside. Beside Senegal this surname is found in 16 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 18 percent reside and Niger, where 14 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yabou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yabou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﺑﻮ | yabw | 80 |
| ﻳﺒﺎﻭ | ybaw | 10 |
| ﺍﻳﺎﺑﻮ | ayabw | 10 |
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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 Yabou
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