Zahou Surname
Approximately 966 people bear this surname
Zahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 660 | 1:34,956 | 2,316 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Algeria | 78 | 1:495,276 | 36,958 |
| Benin | 45 | 1:229,680 | 20,839 |
| Tunisia | 14 | 1:43,616 | 6,025 |
| Congo | 8 | 1:623,637 | 15,053 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Zahou (679) may also be a first name.
Zahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Zahou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺰﻫﻮ) is carried by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Zahou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zahou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Zahou is the 371,590th most commonly used surname internationally, held by around 1 in 7,544,043 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 90 percent of Zahou reside; 66 percent reside in West Africa and 59 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Zahou is also the 317,830th most frequently held first name world-wide, held by 679 people.
The surname is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 660 people, or 1 in 34,956. In The Ivory Coast it is most numerous in: Montagnes District, where 61 percent live, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 24 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 11 percent live. Besides The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 19 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 14 percent live and Algeria, where 8 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Zahou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Zahou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺰﻫﻮ | alzhw | - |
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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 Zahou
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