Samenou Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Samenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 33 | 1:313,200 | 25,349 |
| Cameroon | 10 | 1:2,076,907 | 105,188 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
Samenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Samenou is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samenou? popularity and diffusion
Samenou is the 2,944,094th most frequently held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 165,626,044 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Samenou are found; 75 percent are found in West Africa and 75 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
Samenou is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 33 people, or 1 in 313,200. In Benin Samenou is primarily found in: Mono Department, where 94 percent live, Plateau Department, where 3 percent live and Zou Department, where 3 percent live. Beside Benin this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Cameroon, where 23 percent live and Iran, where 2 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 Samenou
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