Houeda Surname
Approximately 277 people bear this surname
Houeda Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 275 | 1:37,584 | 4,847 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Houeda (11) may also be a first name.
Houeda Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houeda Come From? nationality or country of origin
Houeda is held by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Houeda? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 945,594th most frequently occurring family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 26,308,830 people. The last name Houeda is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Houeda live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 99 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Houeda is also the 3,487,849th most commonly used first name internationally, borne by 11 people.
The surname Houeda is most commonly held in Benin, where it is held by 275 people, or 1 in 37,584. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Ouémé Department, where 78 percent live, Zou Department, where 7 percent live and Atlantique Department, where 7 percent live. Not including Benin this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 0 percent live and Niger, where 0 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 Houeda
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