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 most common in Niger. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houmou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 695,980th most frequently occurring surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 17,187,608 people. The surname Houmou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 89 percent of Houmou reside; 83 percent reside in West Africa and 75 percent reside in Chadic Africa. Houmou is also the 195,080th most frequent first name world-wide It is held by 1,574 people.
This last name is most numerous in Niger, where it is carried by 319 people, or 1 in 60,163. In Niger Houmou is most numerous in: Tahoua Region, where 50 percent live, Agadez Region, where 37 percent live and Zinder Region, where 6 percent live. Not including Niger it is found in 13 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 13 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 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
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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
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