Sossou Surname
Approximately 54,886 people bear this surname
Sossou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 34,932 | 1:296 | 14 |
| Togo | 14,805 | 1:490 | 21 |
| Ethiopia | 3,381 | 1:28,851 | 3,488 |
| Ghana | 831 | 1:32,516 | 3,831 |
| Nigeria | 337 | 1:525,646 | 25,906 |
| France | 226 | 1:293,906 | 45,015 |
| Ivory Coast | 100 | 1:230,712 | 9,424 |
| United States | 57 | 1:6,358,929 | 302,882 |
| Italy | 53 | 1:1,153,900 | 73,671 |
| Senegal | 24 | 1:607,473 | 2,395 |
| Germany | 23 | 1:3,500,237 | 154,763 |
| Burkina Faso | 17 | 1:1,079,535 | 10,589 |
| Belgium | 16 | 1:718,540 | 60,840 |
| Niger | 16 | 1:1,199,501 | 25,520 |
| Canada | 15 | 1:2,456,373 | 146,130 |
| Haiti | 7 | 1:1,526,272 | 14,436 |
| England | 7 | 1:7,959,723 | 202,100 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| Guinea | 3 | 1:3,944,606 | 2,522 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
Sossou (4,703) may also be a first name.
Sossou Demographics
Average Sossou Salary in
United States
$27,375 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sossou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sossou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sossou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻮﺳﻮ) is held by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Sossou.
How Common Is The Last Name Sossou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 10,251st most commonly used last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 132,776 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Sossou are found; 93 percent are found in West Africa and 93 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 99,886th most frequent first name worldwide It is held by 4,703 people.
This surname is most widespread in Benin, where it is borne by 34,932 people, or 1 in 296. In Benin it is mostly concentrated in: Mono Department, where 24 percent live, Kouffo Department, where 22 percent live and Zou Department, where 14 percent live. Apart from Benin it exists in 40 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 27 percent live and Ethiopia, where 6 percent live.
Sossou Last Name Statistics demography
The amount Sossou earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 36.56% less than the national average, earning $27,375 USD per year and in Canada they earn 38.89% less than the national average, earning $30,363 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sossou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sossou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻮﺳﻮ | swsw | - |
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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
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- 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 Sossou
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