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
Sossou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻮﺳﻮ) occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sossou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 10,251st most frequently occurring last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 132,776 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Sossou live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 99,886th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 4,703 people.
Sossou is most frequent in Benin, where it is carried by 34,932 people, or 1 in 296. In Benin Sossou is mostly concentrated in: Mono Department, where 24 percent reside, Kouffo Department, where 22 percent reside and Zou Department, where 14 percent reside. Without taking into account Benin this surname exists in 40 countries. It is also found in Togo, where 27 percent reside and Ethiopia, where 6 percent reside.
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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