Sounatou Surname
Approximately 3 people bear this surname
Sounatou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Sounatou (84) may also be a first name.
Sounatou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sounatou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sounatou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻮﻧﺎﺗﻮ) has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sounatou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 10,311,814th most commonly used surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. Sounatou is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sounatou live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 33 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa. It is also the 1,046,220th most commonly held first name globally, borne by 84 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 2 people, or 1 in 10,384,534. In Cameroon Sounatou is mostly found in: Adamawa Region, where 50 percent reside and North Region, where 50 percent reside. Not including Cameroon Sounatou exists in one country. It is also found in Mauritania, where 33 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sounatou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sounatou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻮﻧﺎﺗﻮ | swnatw | 66.67 |
| ﺻﻮﻧﺔ | swnt | 33.33 |
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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 Sounatou
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