Kakou Surname
Approximately 30,918 people bear this surname
Kakou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 26,328 | 1:876 | 91 |
| Togo | 1,785 | 1:4,060 | 684 |
| France | 475 | 1:139,837 | 21,514 |
| Iraq | 466 | 1:75,154 | 2,502 |
| Greece | 329 | 1:33,677 | 5,271 |
| Niger | 291 | 1:65,952 | 3,026 |
| Benin | 280 | 1:36,913 | 4,769 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Gabon | 253 | 1:7,467 | 1,394 |
| Congo | 168 | 1:29,697 | 3,069 |
| United States | 68 | 1:5,330,278 | 267,385 |
| Yemen | 42 | 1:629,174 | 10,984 |
| Iran | 28 | 1:2,742,233 | 86,474 |
| Cyprus | 13 | 1:68,067 | 7,075 |
| England | 13 | 1:4,286,005 | 132,302 |
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Canada | 10 | 1:3,684,559 | 191,443 |
| Belgium | 9 | 1:1,277,405 | 87,318 |
| Algeria | 6 | 1:6,438,592 | 53,709 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
Kakou (10,630) may also be a first name.
Kakou Demographics
Average Kakou Salary in
United States
$56,641 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kakou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kakou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kakou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﻛﻮ) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It may also occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Kakou.
How Common Is The Last Name Kakou? popularity and diffusion
Kakou is the 17,869th most frequently held family name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 235,706 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 66 percent of Kakou live; 65 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kakou is also the 58,801st most widely held first name in the world It is held by 10,630 people.
The last name is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 26,328 people, or 1 in 876. In The Ivory Coast Kakou is primarily found in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 28 percent reside, Gôh-Djiboua District, where 20 percent reside and Lagunes District, where 13 percent reside. Not including The Ivory Coast this last name occurs in 49 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 6 percent reside and France, where 2 percent reside.
Kakou Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Kakou last name are 3.23% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 50% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Kakou earn in different countries varies greatly. In United States they earn 31.27% more than the national average, earning $56,641 USD per year and in Canada they earn 37.06% less than the national average, earning $31,272 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kakou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kakou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﻛﻮ | kakw | - |
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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 Kakou
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