Akanou Surname
Approximately 121 people bear this surname
Akanou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 102 | 1:226,189 | 9,304 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Guinea | 2 | 1:5,916,908 | 2,656 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Akanou (32) may also be a first name.
Akanou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Akanou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Akanou is most common in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered as:. For other possible spellings of Akanou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Akanou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,649,806th most frequently used family name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 60,227,652 people. Akanou is mostly found in Africa, where 68 percent of Akanou are found; 65 percent are found in West Africa and 54 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Akanou is also the 1,840,253rd most frequently occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 32 people.
This last name is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 102 people, or 1 in 226,189. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 53 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 37 percent are found and Comoé District, where 7 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 6 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 10 percent are found and Cameroon, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Akanou
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