Wanhou Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Wanhou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 68 | 1:305,427 | 28,416 |
| Benin | 48 | 1:215,325 | 19,968 |
| Ivory Coast | 29 | 1:795,560 | 21,349 |
Wanhou (993) may also be a first name.
Wanhou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wanhou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Wanhou has its highest incidence in Cameroon. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Wanhou.
How Common Is The Last Name Wanhou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,465,390th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name Wanhou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Wanhou reside; 74 percent reside in West Africa and 35 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Wanhou is also the 255,437th most widely held forename globally, borne by 993 people.
The last name Wanhou is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is carried by 68 people, or 1 in 305,427. In Cameroon Wanhou is most frequent in: Far North Region, where 93 percent reside, North Region, where 6 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 1 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 33 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 20 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
- 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 Wanhou
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