Yinou Surname
Approximately 36 people bear this surname
Yinou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 34 | 1:610,855 | 46,287 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yinou (287) may also be a first name.
Yinou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yinou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yinou is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yinou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yinou is the 3,274,477th most commonly held last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 202,431,831 people. Yinou is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yinou live; 94 percent live in Central Africa and 94 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 522,011th most common first name globally. It is borne by 287 people.
Yinou is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 34 people, or 1 in 610,855. In Cameroon Yinou is mostly concentrated in: West Region, where 88 percent are found, Centre Region, where 3 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 3 percent are found. Barring Cameroon Yinou occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 3 percent are found and Nigeria, where 3 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 Yinou
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