Samounou Surname
Approximately 834 people bear this surname
Samounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 452 | 1:37,542 | 1,092 |
| Niger | 280 | 1:68,543 | 3,124 |
| Benin | 82 | 1:126,044 | 13,698 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
Samounou (654) may also be a first name.
Samounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Samounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Samounou occurs more in Mali more than any other country or territory. It can appear as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Samounou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 416,960th most commonly held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 8,738,065 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Samounou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 54 percent reside in Mande Africa. Samounou is also the 324,709th most commonly occurring given name worldwide. It is borne by 654 people.
The surname Samounou is most commonly occurring in Mali, where it is held by 452 people, or 1 in 37,542. Beside Mali this surname is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Niger, where 34 percent are found and Benin, where 10 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
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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 Samounou
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