Noungou Surname
Approximately 684 people bear this surname
Noungou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 581 | 1:31,587 | 1,764 |
| Congo | 67 | 1:74,464 | 6,644 |
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Ivory Coast | 8 | 1:2,883,904 | 43,419 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Noungou (87) may also be a first name.
Noungou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Noungou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Noungou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻮﻧﻜﻮ) is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Noungou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 485,771st most frequently occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 10,654,307 people. The surname Noungou occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Noungou reside; 85 percent reside in West Africa and 77 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,024,927th most frequent forename worldwide, held by 87 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 581 people, or 1 in 31,587. In Burkina Faso it is primarily found in: Nord Region, where 42 percent live, Centre Region, where 38 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 5 countries. It is also common in The Congo, where 10 percent live and Cameroon, where 4 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Noungou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Noungou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻮﻧﻜﻮ | nwnkw | - |
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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 Noungou
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