Kahou Surname
Approximately 2,786 people bear this surname
Kahou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2,052 | 1:11,243 | 914 |
| Benin | 622 | 1:16,617 | 2,237 |
| Cameroon | 70 | 1:296,701 | 27,784 |
| Papua New Guinea | 14 | 1:582,408 | 70,330 |
| Indonesia | 12 | 1:11,020,766 | 390,383 |
| Niger | 10 | 1:1,919,202 | 37,248 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Kahou (461) may also be a first name.
Kahou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kahou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kahou is more frequently found in The Ivory Coast than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kahou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kahou is the 157,049th most frequently used family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 2,615,774 people. The last name Kahou occurs mostly in Africa, where 91 percent of Kahou are found; 88 percent are found in West Africa and 85 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 397,322nd most numerous first name in the world, held by 461 people.
This surname is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 2,052 people, or 1 in 11,243. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Sassandra-Marahoué District, where 44 percent live, Montagnes District, where 35 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 11 percent live. Aside from The Ivory Coast this last name is found in 11 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 22 percent live and Cameroon, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
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 Kahou
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis