Yellou Surname
Approximately 90 people bear this surname
Yellou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 62 | 1:166,703 | 16,738 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
Yellou (36) may also be a first name.
Yellou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yellou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yellou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻠﻮ) is more commonly found in Benin than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Yellou.
How Common Is The Last Name Yellou? popularity and diffusion
Yellou is the 1,967,751st most prevalent surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 80,972,732 people. Yellou is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Yellou are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 69 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,717,090th most widespread forename in the world, borne by 36 people.
The surname is most widespread in Benin, where it is borne by 62 people, or 1 in 166,703. In Benin Yellou is most common in: Zou Department, where 85 percent are found, Borgou Department, where 8 percent are found and Kouffo Department, where 3 percent are found. Outside of Benin this surname occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 13 percent are found and Niger, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yellou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yellou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻠﻮ | ylw | - |
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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 Yellou
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