Hounkou Surname
Approximately 289 people bear this surname
Hounkou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 280 | 1:36,913 | 4,769 |
| Cameroon | 7 | 1:2,967,010 | 123,373 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Hounkou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounkou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hounkou occurs more in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of Hounkou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounkou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hounkou is the 917,199th most frequently held last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 25,216,422 people. Hounkou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounkou live; 98 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Hounkou is most frequently held in Benin, where it is carried by 280 people, or 1 in 36,913. In Benin Hounkou is mostly found in: Zou Department, where 84 percent are found, Collines Department, where 9 percent are found and Littoral Department, where 4 percent are found. Not including Benin this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 2 percent are found and Burkina Faso, 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
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