Houwanou Surname
Approximately 189 people bear this surname
Houwanou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 187 | 1:55,271 | 6,896 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Houwanou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houwanou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Houwanou occurs most in Benin. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Houwanou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,231,034th most widely held surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 38,558,444 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Houwanou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 99 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Houwanou is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 187 people, or 1 in 55,271. In Benin Houwanou is primarily concentrated in: Zou Department, where 41 percent reside, Plateau Department, where 18 percent reside and Ouémé Department, where 17 percent reside. Outside of Benin this surname exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 1 percent reside and Nigeria, where 1 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
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