Assounou Surname
Approximately 110 people bear this surname
Assounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 107 | 1:96,594 | 11,054 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Assounou (71) may also be a first name.
Assounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Assounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Assounou is found most frequently in Benin. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Assounou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,746,159th most commonly used family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 66,250,417 people. The last name Assounou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Assounou reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Assounou is also the 1,152,838th most commonly occurring forename globally, held by 71 people.
The last name is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 107 people, or 1 in 96,594. In Benin it is most prevalent in: Collines Department, where 74 percent live, Borgou Department, where 13 percent live and Plateau Department, where 8 percent live. Barring Benin this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 2 percent live and The Ivory Coast, 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 Assounou
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