Henoun Surname
Approximately 491 people bear this surname
Henoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 482 | 1:8,496 | 913 |
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Henoun (62) may also be a first name.
Henoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Henoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Henoun (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻨﻮﻥ) is more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Henoun? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 624,505th most commonly held surname on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 14,842,252 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Henoun reside; 98 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. Henoun is also the 1,246,114th most commonly occurring forename at a global level It is held by 62 people.
Henoun is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is held by 482 people, or 1 in 8,496. In Mauritania it is most frequent in: Nouakchott-Sud Region, where 23 percent reside, Assaba Region, where 15 percent reside and Hodh El Gharbi Region, where 12 percent reside. Apart from Mauritania this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in Algeria, where 1 percent reside and France, where 0 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Henoun Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Henoun in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻨﻮﻥ | hnwn | 99.43 |
| ﺍﻟﻬﻨﻮﻥ | alhnwn | 0.57 |
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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
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- 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 Henoun
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