Assahou Surname
Approximately 301 people bear this surname
Assahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 188 | 1:54,977 | 6,856 |
| Ivory Coast | 69 | 1:334,366 | 12,150 |
| Niger | 42 | 1:456,953 | 12,306 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Assahou (35) may also be a first name.
Assahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Assahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Assahou is carried by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Assahou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 891,661st most frequently used surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 24,211,116 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Assahou reside; 90 percent reside in West Africa and 76 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Assahou is also the 1,744,716th most numerous first name at a global level, held by 35 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Benin, where it is carried by 188 people, or 1 in 54,977. In Benin Assahou is most frequent in: Zou Department, where 95 percent live, Collines Department, where 5 percent live and Atakora Department, where 1 percent live. Outside of Benin this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 23 percent live and Niger, where 14 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 Assahou
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