Bounsou Surname
Approximately 8 people bear this surname
Bounsou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Bounsou (71) may also be a first name.
Bounsou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bounsou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Bounsou is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bounsou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 6,723,624th most widely held family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 63 percent of Bounsou live; 38 percent live in West Africa and 38 percent live in Chadic Africa. Bounsou is also the 1,152,838th most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 71 people.
This last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 5 people, or 1 in 4,153,814. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 80 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 20 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Thailand, where 25 percent reside and The United States, where 13 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
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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 Bounsou
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