Houngan Surname
Approximately 974 people bear this surname
Houngan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 963 | 1:10,733 | 1,477 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,429,866 | 40,727 |
Houngan (20) may also be a first name.
Houngan Demographics
Houngan Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Houngan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houngan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Houngan occurs most in Benin. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Houngan? popularity and diffusion
The last name Houngan is the 369,191st most commonly used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 7,482,080 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Houngan are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 99 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,446,817th most frequently held first name on earth, borne by 20 people.
The surname is most frequent in Benin, where it is held by 963 people, or 1 in 10,733. In Benin Houngan is primarily found in: Zou Department, where 37 percent are found, Atlantique Department, where 27 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 20 percent are found. Other than Benin it is found in 6 countries. It is also found in England, where 0 percent are found and Nigeria, where 0 percent are found.
Houngan Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
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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 Houngan
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