Yakoue Surname
Approximately 692 people bear this surname
Yakoue Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 401 | 1:45,766 | 2,144 |
| Ivory Coast | 245 | 1:94,168 | 4,936 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Yakoue (546) may also be a first name.
Yakoue Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yakoue Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yakoue is found most in Burkina Faso. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Yakoue click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yakoue? popularity and diffusion
Yakoue is the 481,560th most widely held family name worldwide, held by around 1 in 10,531,136 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Yakoue are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 63 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 360,559th most widely held forename world-wide, borne by 546 people.
It is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 401 people, or 1 in 45,766. In Burkina Faso Yakoue is most prevalent in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 97 percent are found, Centre Region, where 2 percent are found and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 0 percent are found. Outside of Burkina Faso Yakoue exists in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 35 percent are found and Cameroon, where 5 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
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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 Yakoue
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