Kakam Surname
Approximately 780 people bear this surname
Kakam Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 331 | 1:62,746 | 8,007 |
| India | 208 | 1:3,687,814 | 102,900 |
| Papua New Guinea | 64 | 1:127,402 | 17,396 |
| Thailand | 47 | 1:1,502,944 | 203,155 |
| DR Congo | 41 | 1:1,801,941 | 95,514 |
| Indonesia | 34 | 1:3,889,682 | 201,134 |
| Iran | 32 | 1:2,399,454 | 79,639 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Niger | 4 | 1:4,798,004 | 75,547 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
Kakam (762) may also be a first name.
Kakam Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakam Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kakam (Arabic: كاكام, Hindi: काकम, Marathi: काकम, Oriya: କକମ, Russian: Какам, Tibetan: ཀ་ཀམ།) is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be found as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakam? popularity and diffusion
It is the 439,223rd most commonly held surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 9,343,008 people. Kakam is predominantly found in Africa, where 49 percent of Kakam live; 42 percent live in Central Africa and 42 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Kakam is also the 297,476th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 762 people.
This surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is borne by 331 people, or 1 in 62,746. In Cameroon Kakam is most frequent in: West Region, where 40 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 26 percent reside and Centre Region, where 17 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname occurs in 17 countries. It is also found in India, where 27 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kakam Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kakam in the Oriya language | ||
| କକମ | kakama | - |
| Kakam in the Hindi language | ||
| काकम | kakama | 80 |
| ककम | kakama | 10 |
| ककाम | kakama | 10 |
| Kakam in the Marathi language | ||
| काकम | kakama | 60 |
| कदम | kadama | 40 |
| Kakam in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀ་ཀམ། | kakam | 36.36 |
| ཀ་ཀམོ། | kakamo | 18.18 |
| དཀར་དཀརམོ། | karkarmo | 9.09 |
| ཀ་ཀམ་ | kakam | 9.09 |
| དཀར་ཀམོ། | karkamo | 9.09 |
| ཀ་ཀ་མོ། | kakamo | 9.09 |
| ཀ་དཀརམོ། | kakarmo | 9.09 |
| Kakam in the Russian language | ||
| Какам | kakam | - |
| Kakam in the Arabic language | ||
| كاكام | kakam | - |
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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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