Houmsou Surname
Approximately 407 people bear this surname
Houmsou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 401 | 1:51,793 | 6,767 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Houmsou (41) may also be a first name.
Houmsou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houmsou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Houmsou is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Houmsou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Houmsou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Houmsou is the 717,442nd most widely held surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 17,905,518 people. Houmsou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Houmsou are found; 81 percent are found in West Africa and 60 percent are found in Chadic Africa. Houmsou is also the 1,590,275th most frequently occurring first name on earth. It is borne by 41 people.
The last name is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 401 people, or 1 in 51,793. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 65 percent are found, North Region, where 16 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 10 percent are found. Beside Cameroon Houmsou exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 1 percent are found and Benin, where 0 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 Houmsou
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