Abounai Surname
Approximately 53 people bear this surname
Abounai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 48 | 1:215,325 | 19,968 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
The alternate forms: Abounaï (53) & Abounaî (1) are calculated separately.
Abounai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Abounai Come From? nationality or country of origin
Abounai is found most frequently in Benin. It can also be rendered as a variant: Abounaï or Abounaî. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Abounai? popularity and diffusion
Abounai is the 2,661,929th most widely held family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 137,500,866 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Abounai live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Abounai is most numerous in Benin, where it is carried by 48 people, or 1 in 215,325. In Benin it is most numerous in: Donga Department, where 100 percent live. Barring Benin it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 4 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 2 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
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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 Abounai
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