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
The surname Yourou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻮﺭﻭ) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yourou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yourou is the 554,308th most widespread family name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 12,673,993 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Yourou live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 45 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 388,155th most common given name at a global level, borne by 480 people.
Yourou is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 298 people, or 1 in 77,420. In The Ivory Coast it 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. Besides The Ivory Coast this surname exists 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
- 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 Yourou
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