Sihou Surname
Approximately 431 people bear this surname
Sihou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 381 | 1:27,128 | 3,602 |
| France | 32 | 1:2,075,710 | 171,237 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Sihou (698) may also be a first name.
Sihou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sihou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sihou occurs in Benin more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sihou? popularity and diffusion
The last name Sihou is the 687,524th most common last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 16,908,459 people. The surname Sihou occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Sihou reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 89 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sihou is also the 312,842nd most widely held first name world-wide, held by 698 people.
This last name is most widely held in Benin, where it is carried by 381 people, or 1 in 27,128. In Benin it is mostly concentrated in: Mono Department, where 60 percent reside, Zou Department, where 17 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 11 percent reside. Apart from Benin this last name exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in France, where 7 percent reside and Niger, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Sihou
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