Hounsou Surname
Approximately 24,230 people bear this surname
Hounsou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 18,380 | 1:562 | 51 |
| Ethiopia | 4,346 | 1:22,445 | 2,857 |
| Togo | 1,050 | 1:6,903 | 1,501 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Ivory Coast | 54 | 1:427,245 | 14,306 |
| Nigeria | 48 | 1:3,690,474 | 107,175 |
| France | 22 | 1:3,019,215 | 204,848 |
| Belgium | 11 | 1:1,045,149 | 78,166 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Germany | 7 | 1:11,500,780 | 305,602 |
| Burkina Faso | 6 | 1:3,058,683 | 18,466 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
Hounsou (2,268) may also be a first name.
Hounsou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounsou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hounsou occurs in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounsou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 22,414th most widely held surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 300,765 people. The surname Hounsou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounsou live; 82 percent live in West Africa and 82 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 156,706th most prevalent first name at a global level, held by 2,268 people.
This surname is most numerous in Benin, where it is carried by 18,380 people, or 1 in 562. In Benin it is most frequent in: Ouémé Department, where 39 percent are found, Atlantique Department, where 19 percent are found and Zou Department, where 14 percent are found. Barring Benin this last name occurs in 20 countries. It is also common in Ethiopia, where 18 percent are found and Togo, where 4 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Hounsou
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