Kakah Surname
Approximately 1,405 people bear this surname
Kakah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 831 | 1:32,516 | 3,831 |
| Egypt | 305 | 1:301,429 | 19,796 |
| Nigeria | 152 | 1:1,165,413 | 47,471 |
| Cameroon | 39 | 1:532,540 | 42,124 |
| Iran | 16 | 1:4,798,908 | 119,068 |
| Liberia | 13 | 1:339,118 | 18,650 |
| Papua New Guinea | 10 | 1:815,372 | 88,623 |
| Indonesia | 6 | 1:22,041,532 | 555,748 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 1:8,038,296 | 30,874 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Sweden | 4 | 1:2,461,689 | 157,534 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
Kakah (1,103) may also be a first name.
Kakah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakah Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kakah (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﻪ) is found most frequently in Ghana. It may be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakah? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 276,073rd most numerous family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 5,186,865 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Kakah reside; 71 percent reside in West Africa and 70 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 240,234th most commonly held first name globally, borne by 1,103 people.
Kakah is most prevalent in Ghana, where it is carried by 831 people, or 1 in 32,516. Aside from Ghana this surname is found in 21 countries. It is also found in Egypt, where 22 percent live and Nigeria, where 11 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kakah Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kakah in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﻪ | kakh | - |
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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 Kakah
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