Ahossa Surname
Approximately 472 people bear this surname
Ahossa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 464 | 1:22,275 | 2,989 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1:7,690,411 | 57,263 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Ahossa (153) may also be a first name.
Ahossa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ahossa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ahossa is found most frequently in Benin. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Ahossa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ahossa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Ahossa is the 642,991st most commonly used last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 15,439,716 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Ahossa are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 743,570th most widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 153 people.
The last name is most frequent in Benin, where it is borne by 464 people, or 1 in 22,275. In Benin Ahossa is most numerous in: Zou Department, where 34 percent live, Collines Department, where 29 percent live and Ouémé Department, where 28 percent live. Not including Benin it exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent live and Nigeria, where 1 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
- 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 Ahossa
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