Hounai Surname
Approximately 78 people bear this surname
Hounai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 64 | 1:324,517 | 29,689 |
| Burkina Faso | 13 | 1:1,411,700 | 12,072 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Hounai (10) may also be a first name.
Hounai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hounai is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounai? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hounai is the 2,136,387th most frequently held family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 93,430,076 people. The surname Hounai is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounai live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 62 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequently occurring first name worldwide, held by 10 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 64 people, or 1 in 324,517. In Cameroon it is most prevalent in: North Region, where 61 percent are found and Far North Region, where 39 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 17 percent are found and Benin, where 1 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
- 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 Hounai
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