Hounyo Surname
Approximately 3,160 people bear this surname
Hounyo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 2,516 | 1:4,108 | 526 |
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Hounyo (717) may also be a first name.
Hounyo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hounyo Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hounyo occurs more in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Hounyo? popularity and diffusion
The surname Hounyo is the 141,088th most common last name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 2,306,185 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Hounyo live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 100 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 308,274th most commonly occurring first name worldwide, held by 717 people.
This surname is most widely held in Benin, where it is borne by 2,516 people, or 1 in 4,108. In Benin Hounyo is most frequent in: Mono Department, where 38 percent live, Atlantique Department, where 24 percent live and Zou Department, where 20 percent live. Barring Benin this surname is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 20 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 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 Hounyo
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