Sahoure Surname
Approximately 1,389 people bear this surname
Sahoure Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,365 | 1:16,902 | 1,308 |
| Benin | 22 | 1:469,800 | 32,108 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
The alternate forms: Sahouré (4) are calculated separately.
Sahoure (318) may also be a first name.
Sahoure Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sahoure Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sahoure is held by more people in The Ivory Coast than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant: Sahouré. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sahoure? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sahoure is the 278,560th most frequently used family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 5,246,613 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 88 percent of Sahoure are found; 88 percent are found in West Africa and 81 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 492,367th most frequently used first name in the world. It is borne by 318 people.
It is most frequently held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,365 people, or 1 in 16,902. In The Ivory Coast it is mostly concentrated in: Bas-Sassandra District, where 25 percent are found, Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 14 percent are found and Vallée du Bandama District, where 14 percent are found. Excluding The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 2 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 0 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 Sahoure
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