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 surname Yekou is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yekou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yekou is the 798,040th most numerous last name on earth. It is borne by approximately 1 in 20,703,255 people. It is primarily found in Africa, where 86 percent of Yekou live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 86 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yekou is also the 1,181,159th most commonly used first name throughout the world. It is borne by 68 people.
This surname is most common in Benin, where it is carried by 227 people, or 1 in 45,531. In Benin it is most numerous in: Atakora Department, where 37 percent live, Kouffo Department, where 33 percent live and Atlantique Department, where 9 percent live. Beside Benin this last name occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 26 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent live.
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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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