Zonou Surname
Approximately 9,944 people bear this surname
Zonou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 5,605 | 1:3,274 | 412 |
| Mali | 2,130 | 1:7,967 | 455 |
| Ivory Coast | 1,064 | 1:21,683 | 1,588 |
| Togo | 945 | 1:7,670 | 1,744 |
| Benin | 182 | 1:56,789 | 7,049 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Zonou (1,753) may also be a first name.
Zonou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Zonou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Zonou is found most frequently in Burkina Faso. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Zonou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 51,542nd most widely held last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 732,859 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Zonou are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 53 percent are found in Mande Africa. Zonou is also the 182,945th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by 1,753 people.
The last name Zonou is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 5,605 people, or 1 in 3,274. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 47 percent live, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 29 percent live and Centre-Ouest Region, where 16 percent live. Outside of Burkina Faso this last name occurs in 12 countries. It is also common in Mali, where 21 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 11 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 Zonou
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