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
Sanou Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Religious Adherence
in Lebanon
Sanou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sanou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sanou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺻﺎﻧﻮ, Hindi: सानू) is borne by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sanou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,264th most frequently used family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 30,051 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sanou live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 83 percent live in Mande Africa. Sanou is also the 64,322nd most frequently used first name throughout the world, held by 9,300 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 210,369 people, or 1 in 87. In Burkina Faso it is primarily 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. Beside Burkina Faso this surname exists 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 devotion of those holding the 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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