Wenou Surname
Approximately 256 people bear this surname
Wenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 232 | 1:44,550 | 5,686 |
| Cameroon | 20 | 1:1,038,453 | 65,513 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
Wenou (646) may also be a first name.
Wenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Wenou is borne by more people in Benin than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Wenou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Wenou is the 998,609th most common family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 28,466,976 people. The last name Wenou occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Wenou live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 91 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Wenou is also the 327,050th most commonly held first name in the world. It is borne by 646 people.
The surname is most commonly used in Benin, where it is held by 232 people, or 1 in 44,550. In Benin it is mostly found in: Zou Department, where 44 percent live, Kouffo Department, where 22 percent live and Collines Department, where 18 percent live. Apart from Benin Wenou exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 8 percent live and China, where 0 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 Wenou
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