Sanou Surname
Approximately 242,503 people bear this surname
Sanou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 210,369 | 1:87 | 9 |
| Mali | 25,620 | 1:662 | 91 |
| Ivory Coast | 3,322 | 1:6,945 | 613 |
| Benin | 746 | 1:13,855 | 1,890 |
| Togo | 735 | 1:9,861 | 2,446 |
| France | 426 | 1:155,922 | 24,194 |
| Cameroon | 260 | 1:79,881 | 9,800 |
| Morocco | 239 | 1:144,251 | 25,171 |
| Netherlands | 143 | 1:118,092 | 18,619 |
| Senegal | 99 | 1:147,266 | 1,244 |
| Spain | 83 | 1:563,278 | 26,988 |
| Niger | 78 | 1:246,052 | 7,845 |
| United States | 50 | 1:7,249,179 | 331,838 |
| Lebanon | 41 | 1:137,490 | 7,040 |
| Canada | 35 | 1:1,052,731 | 78,176 |
| Belgium | 35 | 1:328,476 | 37,084 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Greece | 27 | 1:410,363 | 54,524 |
| Costa Rica | 21 | 1:227,622 | 2,745 |
| Austria | 21 | 1:405,497 | 41,758 |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1:483,113 | 34,678 |
| Australia | 13 | 1:2,076,592 | 93,242 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Iceland | 2 | 1:190,045 | 6,825 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Haiti | 2 | 1:5,341,954 | 21,336 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 1:1,728,021 | 323 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
Sanou (9,300) may also be a first name.
Sanou Demographics
Average Sanou Salary in
United States
$31,625 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sanou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sanou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﺎﻧﻮ, Hindi: सानू) occurs most in Burkina Faso. It may also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanou? popularity and diffusion
Sanou is the 2,264th most commonly held family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 30,051 people. The surname Sanou occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Sanou reside; 99 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Mande Africa. It is also the 64,322nd most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 9,300 people.
This last name is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 210,369 people, or 1 in 87. In Burkina Faso Sanou is mostly found in: Hauts-Bassins Region, where 81 percent are found, Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 9 percent are found and Centre Region, where 5 percent are found. Other than Burkina Faso this surname is found in 61 countries. It is also common in Mali, where 11 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 1 percent are found.
Sanou Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Sanou last name is chiefly Armenian Catholic (73%) in Lebanon.
The amount Sanou earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 26.71% less than the national average, earning $31,625 USD per year and in Canada they earn 29.06% less than the national average, earning $35,246 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sanou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sanou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺻﺎﻧﻮ | sanw | 55.56 |
| ﺳﺎﻧﻮ | sanw | 22.22 |
| ﺻﻨﻮ | snw | 11.11 |
| ﺻﺎﻥ | san | 11.11 |
| Sanou in the Hindi language | ||
| सानू | sanu | 50 |
| सनौ | sanau | 50 |
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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 Sanou
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