Hounkpa Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Hounkpa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 43 | 1:240,363 | 21,480 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Hounkpa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounkpa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hounkpa is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounkpa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Hounkpa is the 2,944,094th most numerous last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 165,626,044 people. Hounkpa is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounkpa reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Hounkpa is most frequently held in Benin, where it is held by 43 people, or 1 in 240,363. In Benin it is mostly found in: Plateau Department, where 44 percent live, Ouémé Department, where 28 percent live and Zou Department, where 16 percent live. Outside of Benin it exists in one country. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 2 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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Hounkpa
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