Chonou Surname
Approximately 680 people bear this surname
Chonou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 650 | 1:35,494 | 2,349 |
| Benin | 25 | 1:413,424 | 29,829 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Chonou (323) may also be a first name.
Chonou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chonou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Chonou is found in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Chonou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chonou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 487,899th most frequent last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 10,716,979 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 52 percent of Chonou reside; 52 percent reside in West Africa and 52 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 488,148th most commonly occurring first name at a global level, borne by 323 people.
The surname Chonou is most prevalent in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 650 people, or 1 in 35,494. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 48 percent live, Lagunes District, where 46 percent live and Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 2 percent live. Outside of The Ivory Coast this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 4 percent live and The United States, 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 Chonou
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