Houard Surname
Approximately 1,679 people bear this surname
Houard Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 1,536 | 1:43,244 | 5,453 |
| Belgium | 115 | 1:99,971 | 15,234 |
| Australia | 4 | 1:6,748,925 | 181,100 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 11 | 1:2,215,943 | 64,354 |
| Isle of Man | 2 | 1:27,135 | 1,659 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 50 | 1:1,004,374 | 59,252 |
Houard Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houard Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Houard is more frequently found in France than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houard? popularity and diffusion
The surname Houard is the 238,706th most prevalent family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 4,340,409 people. Houard occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Houard live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 98 percent live in Gallo-Europe.
This last name is most common in France, where it is borne by 1,536 people, or 1 in 43,244. In France Houard is most prevalent in: Normandy, where 29 percent live, Île-de-France, where 24 percent live and Brittany, where 12 percent live. Excluding France this surname is found in 17 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 7 percent live and Australia, where 0 percent live.
Houard Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Houard has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the surname fell 82 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it fell 96 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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
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