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 found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It may also appear as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Guissou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 96,797th most commonly held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 1,484,225 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Guissou live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,545,828th most frequently held first name internationally It is held by 43 people.
The last name Guissou is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 4,408 people, or 1 in 4,163. In Burkina Faso Guissou is mostly concentrated in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 59 percent live, Centre Region, where 28 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 6 percent live. Apart from Burkina Faso this surname exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 9 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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 Guissou
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