Benounga Surname
Approximately 126 people bear this surname
Benounga Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 120 | 1:173,076 | 18,427 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Benounga (310) may also be a first name.
Benounga Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Benounga Come From? nationality or country of origin
Benounga is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be rendered as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Benounga? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,604,449th most commonly occurring last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 57,837,666 people. Benounga occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Benounga are found; 89 percent are found in West Africa and 85 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 499,178th most commonly occurring forename on earth It is held by 310 people.
The last name Benounga is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 120 people, or 1 in 173,076. In Cameroon Benounga is most numerous in: North Region, where 88 percent live, Adamawa Region, where 8 percent live and Centre Region, where 3 percent live. Not including Cameroon it is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in Chad, where 3 percent live and Central African Republic, 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
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Benounga
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