Bonou Surname
Approximately 21,299 people bear this surname
Bonou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 15,514 | 1:666 | 67 |
| Burkina Faso | 3,620 | 1:5,070 | 562 |
| Ethiopia | 1,288 | 1:75,735 | 7,282 |
| Cameroon | 205 | 1:101,313 | 11,968 |
| Greece | 193 | 1:57,408 | 9,604 |
| Papua New Guinea | 143 | 1:57,019 | 7,266 |
| Ivory Coast | 111 | 1:207,849 | 8,785 |
| Niger | 69 | 1:278,145 | 8,561 |
| Nigeria | 58 | 1:3,054,185 | 94,504 |
| Belgium | 22 | 1:522,575 | 50,051 |
| France | 18 | 1:3,690,151 | 224,666 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
Bonou (1,159) may also be a first name.
Bonou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bonou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bonou is more frequently found in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Bonou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 25,323rd most commonly held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 342,154 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Bonou reside; 92 percent reside in West Africa and 89 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Bonou is also the 233,435th most frequent given name worldwide, held by 1,159 people.
This surname is most widely held in Benin, where it is held by 15,514 people, or 1 in 666. In Benin it is most frequent in: Ouémé Department, where 48 percent live, Zou Department, where 19 percent live and Atlantique Department, where 11 percent live. Besides Benin this surname occurs in 28 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 17 percent live and Ethiopia, where 6 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 Bonou
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