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 last name Houessin is found most frequently in Benin. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Houessin? popularity and diffusion
The last name Houessin is the 618,896th most commonly occurring surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 14,663,070 people. The surname 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 widely held first name world-wide, borne by 48 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is held by 496 people, or 1 in 20,838. In Benin it is mostly found in: Zou Department, where 48 percent live, Littoral Department, where 21 percent live and Kouffo Department, where 14 percent live. Not including Benin it is found in one country. It also occurs 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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