Somou Surname
Approximately 1,013 people bear this surname
Somou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 539 | 1:21,955 | 462 |
| Burkina Faso | 226 | 1:81,204 | 2,858 |
| Benin | 94 | 1:109,953 | 12,317 |
| Indonesia | 90 | 1:1,469,435 | 99,362 |
| Ivory Coast | 47 | 1:490,877 | 15,694 |
| Greece | 8 | 1:1,384,974 | 86,362 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Somou (199) may also be a first name.
Somou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Somou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Somou occurs more in Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Somou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 358,044th most common surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 7,194,024 people. The last name Somou occurs mostly in Africa, where 87 percent of Somou reside; 86 percent reside in West Africa and 74 percent reside in Mande Africa. Somou is also the 642,605th most commonly used first name worldwide. It is borne by 199 people.
The surname Somou is most commonly occurring in Guinea, where it is borne by 539 people, or 1 in 21,955. In Guinea it is most prevalent in: Nzérékoré Region, where 97 percent live, Kindia Region, where 2 percent live and Kankan Region, where 1 percent live. Other than Guinea it is found in 13 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 22 percent live and Benin, where 9 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 Somou
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