Yourou Surname
Approximately 575 people bear this surname
Yourou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 298 | 1:77,420 | 4,244 |
| Mauritania | 238 | 1:17,205 | 1,601 |
| Cameroon | 23 | 1:903,003 | 60,285 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Yourou (480) may also be a first name.
Yourou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yourou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yourou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻮﺭﻭ) is found most frequently in The Ivory Coast. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yourou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 554,308th most common last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 12,673,993 people. The last name Yourou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Yourou live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 45 percent live in Senegambia Africa. Yourou is also the 388,155th most frequent first name world-wide, held by 480 people.
Yourou is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 298 people, or 1 in 77,420. In The Ivory Coast Yourou is most numerous in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 33 percent live, Montagnes District, where 31 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 15 percent live. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Mauritania, where 41 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yourou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yourou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻮﺭﻭ | ywrw | 67.47 |
| ﻳﻮﺭ | ywr | 27.71 |
| ﻳﺮﻭ | yrw | 4.82 |
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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
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- 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 Yourou
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