Houedji Surname
Approximately 445 people bear this surname
Houedji Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 402 | 1:25,710 | 3,450 |
| Ivory Coast | 30 | 1:769,041 | 20,891 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Houedji (125) may also be a first name.
Houedji Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houedji Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Houedji is borne by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houedji? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 671,677th most frequently held last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 16,376,508 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 97 percent of Houedji are found; 97 percent are found in West Africa and 97 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Houedji is also the 832,731st most frequent first name in the world, held by 125 people.
The surname is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 402 people, or 1 in 25,710. In Benin it is most frequent in: Collines Department, where 27 percent reside, Zou Department, where 24 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 18 percent reside. Excluding Benin this last name exists in 6 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 7 percent reside and Togo, where 2 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 Houedji
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