Yebou Surname
Approximately 2,810 people bear this surname
Yebou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 2,189 | 1:4,722 | 621 |
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Mauritania | 42 | 1:97,497 | 6,070 |
| Ivory Coast | 36 | 1:640,868 | 18,598 |
| Nigeria | 5 | 1:35,428,552 | 388,973 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Yebou (266) may also be a first name.
Yebou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yebou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yebou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﺒﻮ) is found most in Benin. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yebou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 155,891st most commonly occurring last name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 2,593,433 people. The last name Yebou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Yebou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 97 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 545,281st most commonly held first name worldwide. It is borne by 266 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Benin, where it is held by 2,189 people, or 1 in 4,722. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Kouffo Department, where 88 percent live, Zou Department, where 4 percent live and Mono Department, where 3 percent live. Other than Benin this surname occurs in 13 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 19 percent live and Mauritania, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yebou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yebou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﺒﻮ | ybw | 71.43 |
| ﻳﺐ | yb | 28.57 |
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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 Yebou
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