Yamou Surname
Approximately 877 people bear this surname
Yamou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 254 | 1:81,768 | 9,997 |
| Benin | 187 | 1:55,271 | 6,896 |
| Morocco | 170 | 1:202,801 | 34,956 |
| Niger | 141 | 1:136,114 | 5,139 |
| Burkina Faso | 65 | 1:282,340 | 5,208 |
| Mauritania | 22 | 1:186,130 | 9,575 |
| France | 18 | 1:3,690,151 | 224,666 |
| Guinea | 6 | 1:1,972,303 | 1,775 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Comoros | 1 | 1:749,524 | 685 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
Yamou (1,039) may also be a first name.
Yamou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yamou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yamou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﻣﻮ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Yamou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yamou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 400,713th most frequently used surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 8,309,630 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Yamou reside; 51 percent reside in West Africa and 29 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yamou is also the 248,783rd most commonly occurring first name throughout the world, held by 1,039 people.
The surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 254 people, or 1 in 81,768. In Cameroon it is most common in: Littoral Region, where 46 percent live, Centre Region, where 30 percent live and West Region, where 10 percent live. Without taking into account Cameroon this last name exists in 16 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 21 percent live and Morocco, where 19 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yamou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yamou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﻣﻮ | yamw | 66.67 |
| ﻳﺎﻡ | yam | 33.33 |
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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 Yamou
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