Sounnou Surname
Approximately 302 people bear this surname
Sounnou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 292 | 1:35,396 | 4,578 |
| Niger | 4 | 1:4,798,004 | 75,547 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Sounnou (16) may also be a first name.
Sounnou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sounnou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sounnou is more frequently found in Benin than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Sounnou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 889,654th most numerous surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 24,130,947 people. Sounnou is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Sounnou live; 100 percent live in West Africa and 98 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,786,762nd most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 16 people.
The surname Sounnou is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is borne by 292 people, or 1 in 35,396. In Benin it is most common in: Ouémé Department, where 46 percent are found, Kouffo Department, where 18 percent are found and Zou Department, where 13 percent are found. Beside Benin it exists in 5 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 1 percent are found and Nigeria, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Sounnou
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