Baissou Surname
Approximately 80 people bear this surname
Baissou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 41 | 1:506,563 | 40,818 |
| Burkina Faso | 26 | 1:705,850 | 8,321 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Baïssou (1) are calculated separately.
Baissou (30) may also be a first name.
Baissou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Baissou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Baissou is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as: Baïssou. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Baissou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,106,139th most commonly held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 91,094,324 people. Baissou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Baissou live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 39 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,911,214th most frequently held given name world-wide It is held by 30 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 41 people, or 1 in 506,563. In Cameroon Baissou is most common in: Far North Region, where 66 percent reside, North Region, where 27 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 2 percent reside. Besides Cameroon this surname exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 33 percent reside and Niger, 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
- 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 Baissou
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