Hokou Surname
Approximately 45 people bear this surname
Hokou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 39 | 1:591,570 | 17,665 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
Hokou (24) may also be a first name.
Hokou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hokou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hokou is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Hokou.
How Common Is The Last Name Hokou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,909,720th most commonly used surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 161,945,465 people. Hokou is primarily found in Africa, where 44 percent of Hokou live; 44 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,187,323rd most frequently used first name on earth, held by 24 people.
The surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 39 people, or 1 in 591,570. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 62 percent are found, Lagunes District, where 26 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 3 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 11 percent are found and Togo, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Hokou
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