Houessin Surname
Approximately 497 people bear this surname
Houessin Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 496 | 1:20,838 | 2,785 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Houessin (48) may also be a first name.
Houessin Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houessin Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Houessin is held by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Houessin.
How Common Is The Last Name Houessin? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 618,896th most frequent surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 14,663,070 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Houessin live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Houessin is also the 1,448,253rd most frequent first name internationally It is held by 48 people.
Houessin is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is borne by 496 people, or 1 in 20,838. In Benin it is most frequent in: Zou Department, where 48 percent live, Littoral Department, where 21 percent live and Kouffo Department, where 14 percent live. Not including Benin it occurs in one country. It is also found in The United States, 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 Houessin
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