Gandonou Surname
Approximately 10,708 people bear this surname
Gandonou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 9,542 | 1:1,083 | 121 |
| Togo | 1,050 | 1:6,903 | 1,501 |
| Ivory Coast | 55 | 1:419,477 | 14,125 |
| Nigeria | 30 | 1:5,904,759 | 145,253 |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 1:6,096,641 | 11,907 |
| Congo | 5 | 1:997,819 | 17,129 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
Gandonou (527) may also be a first name.
Gandonou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gandonou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gandonou occurs most in Benin. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gandonou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 48,208th most commonly held last name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 680,570 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gandonou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Gandonou is also the 367,549th most frequently held first name internationally, held by 527 people.
This surname is most widespread in Benin, where it is held by 9,542 people, or 1 in 1,083. In Benin it is most frequent in: Ouémé Department, where 59 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 13 percent reside and Plateau Department, where 9 percent reside. Apart from Benin Gandonou occurs in 11 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 10 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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 Gandonou
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