Pohou Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Pohou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 101 | 1:228,428 | 9,360 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Pohou (61) may also be a first name.
Pohou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pohou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pohou is borne by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Pohou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Pohou is the 1,701,480th most frequently occurring last name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. The last name Pohou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 69 percent of Pohou reside; 69 percent reside in West Africa and 67 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Pohou is also the 1,257,960th most widely held first name on earth, borne by 61 people.
The last name is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 101 people, or 1 in 228,428. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily concentrated in: Montagnes District, where 52 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 23 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 15 percent are found. Other than The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 11 percent are found and Benin, where 1 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 Pohou
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