Yahou Surname
Approximately 2,893 people bear this surname
Yahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,399 | 1:16,491 | 1,277 |
| Algeria | 702 | 1:55,031 | 9,362 |
| Niger | 294 | 1:65,279 | 3,004 |
| Benin | 192 | 1:53,831 | 6,745 |
| Cameroon | 174 | 1:119,362 | 13,671 |
| France | 106 | 1:626,629 | 82,018 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
Yahou (1,034) may also be a first name.
Yahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yahou is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yahou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 152,166th most commonly held last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 2,519,027 people. The last name Yahou occurs mostly in Africa, where 84 percent of Yahou live; 55 percent live in West Africa and 42 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 249,427th most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 1,034 people.
It is most frequently used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 1,399 people, or 1 in 16,491. In The Ivory Coast it is most prevalent in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 29 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 24 percent are found and Montagnes District, where 20 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Algeria, where 24 percent are found and Niger, where 10 percent are found.
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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 Yahou
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