Kakanou Surname
Approximately 1,372 people bear this surname
Kakanou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 495 | 1:20,880 | 2,792 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Cameroon | 402 | 1:51,664 | 6,754 |
| France | 34 | 1:1,953,609 | 166,012 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Kakanou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakanou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kakanou is more commonly found in Benin than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakanou? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 281,264th most frequent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 5,311,622 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Kakanou live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 67 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The surname Kakanou is most common in Benin, where it is held by 495 people, or 1 in 20,880. In Benin it is mostly found in: Kouffo Department, where 60 percent reside, Ouémé Department, where 11 percent reside and Zou Department, where 11 percent reside. Excluding Benin this last name exists in 13 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 31 percent reside and Cameroon, where 29 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 Kakanou
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