Yokou Surname
Approximately 611 people bear this surname
Yokou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 396 | 1:26,100 | 3,496 |
| Papua New Guinea | 93 | 1:87,674 | 11,644 |
| Ivory Coast | 68 | 1:339,283 | 12,260 |
| Indonesia | 31 | 1:4,266,103 | 213,470 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Brazil | 6 | 1:35,679,055 | 486,536 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Yokou (645) may also be a first name.
Yokou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yokou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yokou is held by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yokou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 529,538th most widely held family name internationally It is held by around 1 in 11,927,244 people. The surname Yokou is mostly found in Africa, where 74 percent of Yokou live; 72 percent live in West Africa and 72 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yokou is also the 327,343rd most frequently used first name on earth, held by 645 people.
Yokou is most commonly used in Benin, where it is borne by 396 people, or 1 in 26,100. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Zou Department, where 78 percent live, Littoral Department, where 8 percent live and Collines Department, where 5 percent live. Outside of Benin this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also found in Papua New Guinea, where 15 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 11 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 Yokou
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