Hekou Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Hekou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 30 | 1:344,520 | 26,827 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Hekou (512) may also be a first name.
Hekou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hekou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hekou is found most frequently in Benin. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Hekou.
How Common Is The Last Name Hekou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,141,416th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 90 percent of Hekou reside; 87 percent reside in West Africa and 82 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Hekou is also the 373,684th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 512 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Benin, where it is borne by 30 people, or 1 in 344,520. In Benin Hekou is primarily concentrated in: Mono Department, where 90 percent live, Kouffo Department, where 3 percent live and Littoral Department, where 3 percent live. Apart from Benin it occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in China, where 5 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 5 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 Hekou
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