Cohoun Surname
Approximately 164 people bear this surname
Cohoun Surname Distribution Map
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
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Benin | 163 | 1:63,409 | 7,789 |
United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
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United States | 32 | 1:1,569,334 | 83,036 |
Cohoun (10) may also be a first name.
Cohoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cohoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cohoun is found most frequently in Benin. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cohoun? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,353,468th most common surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 44,436,256 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Cohoun live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 10 people.
The surname is most prevalent in Benin, where it is held by 163 people, or 1 in 63,409. In Benin Cohoun is most prevalent in: Zou Department, where 34 percent reside, Atlantique Department, where 20 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 20 percent reside. Beside Benin it exists in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 1 percent reside.
Cohoun Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Cohoun has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Cohoun surname fell 97 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Cohoun
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