Ekoun Surname
Approximately 1,454 people bear this surname
Ekoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 1,420 | 1:16,247 | 1,262 |
| Cameroon | 28 | 1:741,752 | 52,682 |
| Benin | 5 | 1:2,067,120 | 68,069 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Ekoun (1,622) may also be a first name.
Ekoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ekoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ekoun occurs most in The Ivory Coast. It can be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Ekoun click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ekoun? popularity and diffusion
Ekoun is the 268,397th most frequently used last name worldwide, held by around 1 in 5,012,067 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 86 percent of Ekoun are found; 84 percent are found in West Africa and 82 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 191,698th most frequently held given name in the world. It is borne by 1,622 people.
The last name Ekoun is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 1,420 people, or 1 in 16,247. In The Ivory Coast it is primarily found in: Lacs District, where 31 percent reside, Bas-Sassandra District, where 28 percent reside and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 13 percent reside. Not including The Ivory Coast Ekoun exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 2 percent reside and Benin, where 0 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 Ekoun
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