Agossou Surname
Approximately 40,261 people bear this surname
Agossou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 30,525 | 1:339 | 21 |
| Togo | 4,305 | 1:1,684 | 180 |
| Ethiopia | 3,703 | 1:26,342 | 3,258 |
| Gabon | 354 | 1:5,337 | 981 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| France | 289 | 1:229,836 | 35,639 |
| Mali | 258 | 1:65,771 | 1,556 |
| Ivory Coast | 207 | 1:111,455 | 5,633 |
| Nigeria | 133 | 1:1,331,900 | 52,479 |
| Senegal | 42 | 1:347,127 | 1,792 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 | 1:1,529,342 | 12,810 |
| Belgium | 10 | 1:1,149,664 | 82,403 |
| United States | 9 | 1:40,273,215 | 872,126 |
| Switzerland | 9 | 1:912,546 | 58,198 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Haiti | 5 | 1:2,136,781 | 15,037 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Agossou (10,609) may also be a first name.
Agossou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Agossou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Agossou has its highest incidence in Benin. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Agossou.
How Common Is The Last Name Agossou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 13,849th most frequently used last name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 181,008 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Agossou are found; 89 percent are found in West Africa and 88 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 58,890th most frequently used first name worldwide. It is borne by 10,609 people.
The last name Agossou is most frequent in Benin, where it is held by 30,525 people, or 1 in 339. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Ouémé Department, where 29 percent reside, Zou Department, where 17 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Benin this last name occurs in 32 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 11 percent reside and Ethiopia, where 9 percent reside.
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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
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