Posou Surname
Approximately 92 people bear this surname
Posou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 91 | 1:89,601 | 11,921 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Posou (31) may also be a first name.
Posou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Posou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Posou is found most frequently in Papua New Guinea. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Posou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Posou is the 1,943,350th most commonly used last name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 79,212,456 people. The last name Posou occurs mostly in Oceania, where 100 percent of Posou live; 99 percent live in Oceania Islands and 99 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 1,874,099th most frequently held first name globally, borne by 31 people.
The last name Posou is most numerous in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 91 people, or 1 in 89,601. In Papua New Guinea Posou is most frequent in: Gulf, where 62 percent live, National Capital District, where 33 percent live and Southern Highlands, where 4 percent live. Apart from Papua New Guinea it exists in one country. It is also common in Australia, where 1 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
- 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 Posou
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