Sinmenou Surname
Approximately 542 people bear this surname
Sinmenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 523 | 1:19,762 | 2,643 |
| Ivory Coast | 18 | 1:1,281,735 | 28,562 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
The alternate forms: Sinmènou (2) are calculated separately.
Sinmenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sinmenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sinmenou is held by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms: Sinmènou. Click here for further potential spellings of Sinmenou.
How Common Is The Last Name Sinmenou? popularity and diffusion
Sinmenou is the 579,404th most commonly occurring last name world-wide, held by around 1 in 13,445,657 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Sinmenou reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 100 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most commonly used in Benin, where it is held by 523 people, or 1 in 19,762. In Benin Sinmenou is most numerous in: Ouémé Department, where 68 percent live, Atlantique Department, where 24 percent live and Littoral Department, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account Benin this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The Ivory Coast, where 3 percent live and Nigeria, where 0 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 Sinmenou
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