Yassou Surname
Approximately 584 people bear this surname
Yassou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 494 | 1:20,922 | 2,797 |
| Niger | 24 | 1:799,667 | 18,510 |
| Tunisia | 18 | 1:33,924 | 4,997 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Mauritania | 6 | 1:682,477 | 21,744 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Yassou (123) may also be a first name.
Yassou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yassou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yassou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺎﺹ) is found most frequently in Benin. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yassou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 547,713th most commonly held surname throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 12,478,675 people. Yassou occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Yassou live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 840,349th most commonly used forename internationally It is held by 123 people.
The surname is most frequently used in Benin, where it is held by 494 people, or 1 in 20,922. In Benin it is most common in: Zou Department, where 70 percent are found, Atlantique Department, where 17 percent are found and Alibori Department, where 7 percent are found. Not including Benin Yassou exists in 12 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 4 percent are found and Tunisia, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yassou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yassou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺎﺹ | yas | 66.67 |
| ﻳﺎﺻﻮ | yasw | 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 Yassou
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