Sognon Surname
Approximately 4,626 people bear this surname
Sognon Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 3,058 | 1:3,380 | 415 |
| Togo | 1,155 | 1:6,275 | 1,305 |
| Ivory Coast | 295 | 1:78,208 | 4,281 |
| Ethiopia | 49 | 1:1,990,740 | 8,024 |
| France | 42 | 1:1,581,493 | 147,826 |
| Nigeria | 13 | 1:13,626,366 | 237,812 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
Sognon (782) may also be a first name.
Sognon Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sognon Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sognon has its highest incidence in Benin. It may also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Sognon click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sognon? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sognon is the 101,969th most commonly held family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 1,575,345 people. The last name Sognon occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Sognon live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 293,371st most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 782 people.
The last name Sognon is most frequently used in Benin, where it is carried by 3,058 people, or 1 in 3,380. In Benin Sognon is mostly found in: Kouffo Department, where 52 percent live, Collines Department, where 12 percent live and Zou Department, where 11 percent live. Not including Benin it occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 25 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 6 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 Sognon
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