Yacou Surname
Approximately 1,257 people bear this surname
Yacou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 1,033 | 1:18,579 | 1,183 |
| Benin | 93 | 1:111,136 | 12,439 |
| Ivory Coast | 68 | 1:339,283 | 12,260 |
| France | 38 | 1:1,747,966 | 156,445 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yacou (2,749) may also be a first name.
Yacou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yacou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yacou occurs most in Niger. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of Yacou.
How Common Is The Last Name Yacou? popularity and diffusion
Yacou is the 302,077th most frequently used family name throughout the world, held by around 1 in 5,797,570 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 94 percent of Yacou are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 82 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Yacou is also the 139,411th most frequently held forename worldwide It is held by 2,749 people.
The surname is most frequent in Niger, where it is carried by 1,033 people, or 1 in 18,579. In Niger it is mostly found in: Maradi Region, where 42 percent reside, Tahoua Region, where 31 percent reside and Zinder Region, where 23 percent reside. Aside from Niger Yacou exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 7 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 5 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
- 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 Yacou
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