Yougou Surname
Approximately 65 people bear this surname
Yougou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 29 | 1:716,175 | 51,453 |
| Ivory Coast | 13 | 1:1,774,710 | 34,235 |
| Burkina Faso | 11 | 1:1,668,373 | 13,584 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Mauritania | 3 | 1:1,364,954 | 27,355 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
Yougou (1,815) may also be a first name.
Yougou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yougou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yougou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻮﻛﻮ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yougou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yougou is the 2,372,517th most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 112,116,091 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yougou are found; 55 percent are found in West Africa and 46 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 179,205th most commonly occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 1,815 people.
The surname is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 29 people, or 1 in 716,175. In Cameroon Yougou is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 55 percent are found, West Region, where 31 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 7 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon it is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 20 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 17 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yougou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yougou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻮﻛﻮ | ywkw | 66.67 |
| ﻳﻜﻮ | ykw | 33.33 |
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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 Yougou
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