Yehouessi Surname
Approximately 1,794 people bear this surname
Yehouessi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1,698 | 1:6,087 | 821 |
| France | 62 | 1:1,071,334 | 116,831 |
| Ivory Coast | 17 | 1:1,357,131 | 29,476 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1 | 1:1,135,674 | 984 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Yehouéssi (1) are calculated separately.
Yehouessi (96) may also be a first name.
Yehouessi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yehouessi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yehouessi occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Yehouéssi. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yehouessi? popularity and diffusion
The last name Yehouessi is the 226,326th most frequent family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 4,062,177 people. The surname Yehouessi is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Yehouessi live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Yehouessi is also the 968,397th most commonly used first name throughout the world It is held by 96 people.
This last name is most common in Benin, where it is borne by 1,698 people, or 1 in 6,087. In Benin Yehouessi is most common in: Mono Department, where 40 percent reside, Zou Department, where 17 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 15 percent reside. Excluding Benin this last name exists in 15 countries. It is also common in France, where 3 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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 Yehouessi
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