Dossekou Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Dossekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 18 | 1:574,200 | 35,798 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Dossekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dossekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dossekou is borne by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dossekou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,532,898th most frequently held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 383,555,048 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 95 percent of Dossekou are found; 95 percent are found in West Africa and 95 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This last name is most frequent in Benin, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 574,200. In Benin it is most common in: Zou Department, where 50 percent live, Littoral Department, where 33 percent live and Mono Department, where 17 percent live. Aside from Benin this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in The United States, where 5 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 Dossekou
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