Houmou Surname
Approximately 424 people bear this surname
Houmou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 319 | 1:60,163 | 2,862 |
| Ivory Coast | 55 | 1:419,477 | 14,125 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| England | 12 | 1:4,643,172 | 139,951 |
| Ethiopia | 4 | 1:24,386,566 | 19,165 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Houmou (1,574) may also be a first name.
Houmou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houmou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Houmou is found most in Niger. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houmou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 695,980th most frequently occurring last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 17,187,608 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 89 percent of Houmou are found; 83 percent are found in West Africa and 75 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Houmou is also the 195,080th most frequently occurring given name world-wide It is held by 1,574 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Niger, where it is carried by 319 people, or 1 in 60,163. In Niger it is mostly concentrated in: Tahoua Region, where 50 percent are found, Agadez Region, where 37 percent are found and Zinder Region, where 6 percent are found. Outside of Niger it is found in 13 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 13 percent are found and Cameroon, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Houmou
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