Hounou Surname
Approximately 2,142 people bear this surname
Hounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 1,575 | 1:4,602 | 829 |
| Benin | 445 | 1:23,226 | 3,117 |
| Niger | 59 | 1:325,288 | 9,578 |
| Cameroon | 16 | 1:1,298,067 | 76,941 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Hounou (117) may also be a first name.
Hounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hounou has its highest incidence in Togo. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Hounou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 195,808th most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by around 1 in 3,402,216 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Hounou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Hounou is also the 864,112th most commonly used given name world-wide It is held by 117 people.
This last name is most commonly used in Togo, where it is held by 1,575 people, or 1 in 4,602. Aside from Togo this last name exists in 14 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 21 percent reside and Niger, where 3 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 Hounou
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