Yekou Surname
Approximately 352 people bear this surname
Yekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 227 | 1:45,531 | 5,789 |
| Ivory Coast | 90 | 1:256,347 | 10,121 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 1:388,272 | 50,829 |
| China | 8 | 1:170,915,196 | 8,932 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
Yekou (68) may also be a first name.
Yekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yekou is most common in Benin. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Yekou.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 798,040th most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 20,703,255 people. The surname Yekou is predominantly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Yekou reside; 86 percent reside in West Africa and 86 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yekou is also the 1,181,159th most common first name globally It is held by 68 people.
The surname Yekou is most prevalent in Benin, where it is borne by 227 people, or 1 in 45,531. In Benin it is most numerous in: Atakora Department, where 37 percent reside, Kouffo Department, where 33 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 9 percent reside. Not including Benin this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 26 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Yekou
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