Hounon Surname
Approximately 856 people bear this surname
Hounon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 821 | 1:12,589 | 1,707 |
| Ivory Coast | 25 | 1:922,849 | 23,346 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Hounon (68) may also be a first name.
Hounon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounon Come From? nationality or country of origin
Hounon is found most in Benin. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Hounon click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounon? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 408,463rd most commonly held surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 8,513,488 people. Hounon is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounon reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 96 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Hounon is also the 1,181,159th most widely held first name worldwide, borne by 68 people.
Hounon is most numerous in Benin, where it is held by 821 people, or 1 in 12,589. In Benin it is most prevalent in: Zou Department, where 60 percent reside, Atlantique Department, where 20 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 12 percent reside. Without taking into account Benin this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 3 percent reside and Senegal, where 0 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 Hounon
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