Sounou Surname
Approximately 1,716 people bear this surname
Sounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 911 | 1:11,345 | 1,556 |
| Burkina Faso | 418 | 1:43,905 | 2,101 |
| Cameroon | 261 | 1:79,575 | 9,757 |
| New Caledonia | 68 | 1:4,062 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 | 1:741,247 | 83,447 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Togo | 9 | 1:805,308 | 6,372 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Sounou (2,182) may also be a first name.
Sounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sounou is most common in Benin. It may appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sounou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 234,672nd most commonly used last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 4,246,822 people. The surname Sounou is primarily found in Africa, where 94 percent of Sounou are found; 94 percent are found in West Africa and 77 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Sounou is also the 160,445th most frequent given name in the world It is held by 2,182 people.
Sounou is most commonly held in Benin, where it is held by 911 people, or 1 in 11,345. In Benin it is most numerous in: Atlantique Department, where 23 percent reside, Zou Department, where 21 percent reside and Kouffo Department, where 12 percent reside. Apart from Benin this last name is found in 15 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 24 percent reside and Cameroon, where 15 percent reside.
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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 Sounou
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