Hounkpenou Surname

570,540th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 553 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Togo
Highest density in:
Togo

Hounkpenou Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Hounkpenou Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Togo5251:13,8053,854
Benin281:369,12927,947

Hounkpenou Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Hounkpenou Come From? nationality or country of origin

Hounkpenou is borne by more people in Togo than any other country/territory. It may occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Hounkpenou? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 570,540th most commonly used family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 13,178,202 people. The last name Hounkpenou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounkpenou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This surname is most widely held in Togo, where it is borne by 525 people, or 1 in 13,805. Barring Togo this last name is found in one country. It also occurs in Benin, where 5 percent reside.

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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 Hounkpenou
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