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 is held by more people in Guinea than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Somou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 358,044th most frequent family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 7,194,024 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 87 percent of Somou live; 86 percent live in West Africa and 74 percent live in Mande Africa. Somou is also the 642,605th most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 199 people.
This last name is most widely held in Guinea, where it is held by 539 people, or 1 in 21,955. In Guinea it is mostly concentrated in: Nzérékoré Region, where 97 percent live, Kindia Region, where 2 percent live and Kankan Region, where 1 percent live. Besides Guinea it exists in 13 countries. It is also found 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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