Gounou Surname
Approximately 25,847 people bear this surname
Gounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 22,989 | 1:450 | 40 |
| Burkina Faso | 846 | 1:21,693 | 1,450 |
| Togo | 840 | 1:8,628 | 2,051 |
| Cameroon | 751 | 1:27,655 | 3,759 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| France | 95 | 1:699,187 | 88,446 |
| Niger | 90 | 1:213,245 | 7,073 |
| Ethiopia | 36 | 1:2,709,618 | 8,935 |
| Ivory Coast | 24 | 1:961,301 | 23,927 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Gabon | 9 | 1:209,910 | 2,378 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| New Caledonia | 4 | 1:69,056 | 6,678 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Gounou (8,315) may also be a first name.
Gounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gounou is held by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 21,095th most frequently occurring surname globally It is held by approximately 1 in 281,949 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gounou live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 69,310th most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 8,315 people.
This surname is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 22,989 people, or 1 in 450. In Benin Gounou is most prevalent in: Borgou Department, where 50 percent live, Alibori Department, where 27 percent live and Atakora Department, where 13 percent live. Barring Benin this surname is found in 19 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 3 percent live and Togo, where 3 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 Gounou
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