Houehanou Surname

407,382nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 859 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Benin
Highest density in:
Benin

Houehanou Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Houehanou Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Benin8491:12,1741,663
France21:33,211,361423,184
Ivory Coast21:11,535,61661,806
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Mauritania11:4,094,86338,869
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465

Houehanou (496) may also be a first name.

Houehanou Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Houehanou Come From? nationality or country of origin

Houehanou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻮﻫﺎﻧﻮ) is held by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Houehanou? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 407,382nd most frequently occurring family name on a global scale. It is borne by around 1 in 8,483,755 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Houehanou are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Houehanou is also the 381,018th most widely held given name at a global level. It is borne by 496 people.

The surname is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 849 people, or 1 in 12,174. In Benin it is primarily concentrated in: Collines Department, where 84 percent live, Kouffo Department, where 5 percent live and Zou Department, where 4 percent live. Apart from Benin this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in France, where 0 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 0 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Houehanou Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Houehanou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﻫﻮﻫﺎﻧﻮhwhanw-

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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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Houehanou
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