Yalou Surname
Approximately 288 people bear this surname
Yalou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 121 | 1:190,671 | 8,308 |
| Benin | 84 | 1:123,043 | 13,434 |
| Papua New Guinea | 35 | 1:232,963 | 32,024 |
| Niger | 33 | 1:581,576 | 14,627 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Iran | 2 | 1:38,391,262 | 236,033 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
Yalou (5,489) may also be a first name.
Yalou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yalou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yalou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﻟﻮ, Russian: Ялоу) is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yalou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yalou is the 919,444th most common surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 25,303,979 people. Yalou occurs mostly in Africa, where 75 percent of Yalou reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 44 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yalou is also the 90,655th most commonly occurring first name on earth, borne by 5,489 people.
This last name is most widespread in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 121 people, or 1 in 190,671. In The Ivory Coast Yalou is most frequent in: Woroba District, where 38 percent live, Bas-Sassandra District, where 27 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 25 percent live. Beside The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 29 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yalou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yalou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﻟﻮ | yalw | - |
| Yalou in the Russian language | ||
| Ялоу | alou | - |
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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 Yalou
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