Kaikoura Surname
Approximately 11 people bear this surname
Kaikoura Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 6 | 1:754,720 | 41,661 |
| Mauritania | 4 | 1:1,023,716 | 25,172 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
Kaikoura Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaikoura Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kaikoura (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻴﻜﻮﺭﻩ) has its highest incidence in New Zealand. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaikoura? popularity and diffusion
Kaikoura is the 5,812,366th most frequently occurring surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 662,504,174 people. Kaikoura occurs mostly in Oceania, where 55 percent of Kaikoura reside; 55 percent reside in Australasia and 55 percent reside in Australia and New Zealand.
The last name Kaikoura is most common in New Zealand, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 754,720. In New Zealand it is mostly found in: Canterbury Region, where 100 percent reside. Besides New Zealand this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 36 percent reside and Japan, where 9 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kaikoura Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kaikoura in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻴﻜﻮﺭﻩ | kykwrh | 75 |
| ﻛﻴﻜﻮﺭ | kykwr | 25 |
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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 Kaikoura
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