Guissou Surname
Approximately 4,910 people bear this surname
Guissou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 4,408 | 1:4,163 | 502 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Ivory Coast | 43 | 1:536,540 | 16,589 |
| Germany | 11 | 1:7,318,678 | 235,042 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Benin | 3 | 1:3,445,201 | 77,822 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
Guissou (43) may also be a first name.
Guissou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Guissou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Guissou is borne by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Guissou.
How Common Is The Last Name Guissou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 96,797th most common family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 1,484,225 people. Guissou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Guissou are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 93 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Guissou is also the 1,545,828th most widespread first name throughout the world, borne by 43 people.
The surname is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 4,408 people, or 1 in 4,163. In Burkina Faso it is most prevalent in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 59 percent reside, Centre Region, where 28 percent reside and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 6 percent reside. Aside from Burkina Faso this last name exists in 14 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 9 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
- 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 Guissou
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