Yenou Surname
Approximately 3,771 people bear this surname
Yenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,986 | 1:10,458 | 1,390 |
| Benin | 1,372 | 1:7,533 | 1,028 |
| Burkina Faso | 379 | 1:48,422 | 2,204 |
| Ivory Coast | 12 | 1:1,922,603 | 35,802 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
The alternate forms: Yênou (1) are calculated separately.
Yenou (156) may also be a first name.
Yenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yenou is found most in Cameroon. It may be found in the variant forms: Yênou. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yenou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 121,439th most commonly occurring last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 1,932,523 people. The surname Yenou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Yenou are found; 53 percent are found in Central Africa and 53 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 735,679th most common first name on earth. It is borne by 156 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 1,986 people, or 1 in 10,458. In Cameroon Yenou is most common in: West Region, where 83 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 7 percent are found and Centre Region, where 7 percent are found. Without taking into account Cameroon it is found in 8 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 36 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 10 percent are found.
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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 Yenou
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