Sohou Surname
Approximately 9,931 people bear this surname
Sohou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 5,464 | 1:4,222 | 398 |
| Benin | 3,978 | 1:2,598 | 313 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Papua New Guinea | 25 | 1:326,149 | 43,617 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| France | 8 | 1:8,302,840 | 321,660 |
| Liberia | 7 | 1:629,791 | 27,063 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
Sohou (2,792) may also be a first name.
Sohou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sohou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sohou occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Sohou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sohou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Sohou is the 51,606th most prevalent family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 733,818 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 92 percent of Sohou are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 82 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 138,098th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 2,792 people.
The surname is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 5,464 people, or 1 in 4,222. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Montagnes District, where 74 percent live, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 14 percent live and Bas-Sassandra District, where 4 percent live. Other than The Ivory Coast it occurs in 17 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 40 percent live and Togo, where 4 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 Sohou
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