Houedessou Surname
Approximately 46 people bear this surname
Houedessou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 43 | 1:240,363 | 21,480 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
Houedessou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houedessou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Houedessou is more frequently found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Houedessou.
How Common Is The Last Name Houedessou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,876,555th most frequent last name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 158,424,911 people. The surname Houedessou is mostly found in Africa, where 93 percent of Houedessou reside; 93 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Houedessou is most frequent in Benin, where it is borne by 43 people, or 1 in 240,363. In Benin Houedessou is mostly found in: Mono Department, where 72 percent reside, Ouémé Department, where 16 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 5 percent reside. Aside from Benin this last name is found in one country. It is also common in France, where 7 percent reside.
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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 Houedessou
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