Honou Surname
Approximately 945 people bear this surname
Honou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 505 | 1:20,467 | 2,734 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 1:3,295,890 | 46,139 |
| Burkina Faso | 5 | 1:3,670,420 | 19,318 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Honou (44) may also be a first name.
Honou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Honou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Honou occurs most in Benin. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Honou.
How Common Is The Last Name Honou? popularity and diffusion
Honou is the 378,019th most widely held last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 7,711,689 people. The surname Honou is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Honou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Honou is also the 1,525,482nd most commonly occurring given name at a global level. It is borne by 44 people.
The last name is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 505 people, or 1 in 20,467. In Benin Honou is most numerous in: Mono Department, where 36 percent are found, Kouffo Department, where 32 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 10 percent are found. Without taking into account Benin this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Togo, where 44 percent are found and Indonesia, where 1 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 Honou
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