Yadou Surname
Approximately 357 people bear this surname
Yadou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 139 | 1:74,357 | 8,912 |
| Niger | 117 | 1:164,034 | 5,913 |
| Cameroon | 82 | 1:253,281 | 24,740 |
| India | 15 | 1:51,137,692 | 512,385 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Yadou (1,150) may also be a first name.
Yadou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yadou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yadou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﺩ) has its highest incidence in Benin. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yadou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 790,102nd most frequently occurring family name in the world, held by around 1 in 20,413,294 people. The last name Yadou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 95 percent of Yadou reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 39 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yadou is also the 234,650th most widely held first name on earth It is held by 1,150 people.
Yadou is most frequent in Benin, where it is held by 139 people, or 1 in 74,357. In Benin Yadou is mostly found in: Alibori Department, where 71 percent reside, Borgou Department, where 19 percent reside and Donga Department, where 10 percent reside. Barring Benin this surname occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 33 percent reside and Cameroon, where 23 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yadou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yadou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﺩ | yad | - |
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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 Yadou
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