Sournois Surname
Approximately 61 people bear this surname
Sournois Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | 58 | 1:22,300 | 4,455 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
Sournois Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sournois Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sournois is most common in Mauritius. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sournois? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,460,878th most widely held family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 119,467,966 people. The last name Sournois is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Sournois reside; 95 percent reside in Southern Africa and 95 percent reside in Southern African Indian Ocean.
The surname is most frequently used in Mauritius, where it is held by 58 people, or 1 in 22,300. In Mauritius it is most frequent in: Moka District, where 98 percent live and Rivière Noire District, where 2 percent live. Aside from Mauritius this surname exists in one country. It is also common in Italy, where 5 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sournois
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