Youkou Surname
Approximately 2,900 people bear this surname
Youkou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,835 | 1:8,138 | 704 |
| Cameroon | 36 | 1:576,919 | 44,454 |
| Liberia | 9 | 1:489,837 | 23,279 |
| Guinea | 5 | 1:2,366,763 | 1,841 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Youkou (1,428) may also be a first name.
Youkou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Youkou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Youkou is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Youkou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 151,840th most prevalent family name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 2,512,947 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Youkou live; 89 percent live in West Africa and 88 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Youkou is also the 206,516th most widely held given name at a global level. It is borne by 1,428 people.
The last name Youkou is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 2,835 people, or 1 in 8,138. In The Ivory Coast Youkou is most common in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 89 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 9 percent live and Yamoussoukro Autonomous District, where 1 percent live. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast it is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 1 percent live and Liberia, where 0 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 Youkou
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