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 found most frequently in Benin. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gounou.
How Common Is The Last Name Gounou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 21,095th most commonly occurring last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 281,949 people. The last name Gounou occurs predominantly 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 commonly used first name world-wide, borne by 8,315 people.
The surname Gounou is most prevalent in Benin, where it is carried by 22,989 people, or 1 in 450. In Benin Gounou is most frequent in: Borgou Department, where 50 percent reside, Alibori Department, where 27 percent reside and Atakora Department, where 13 percent reside. Apart from Benin this surname occurs in 19 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 3 percent reside and Togo, where 3 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
- 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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