Kanakoa Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Kanakoa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Kanakoa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanakoa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanakoa is carried by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanakoa? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kanakoa is the 4,908,606th most commonly used family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 88 percent of Kanakoa live; 81 percent live in Central Africa and 81 percent live in Adamawa-Ubangian Africa.
The surname is most commonly used in Cameroon, where it is held by 14 people, or 1 in 1,483,505. In Cameroon Kanakoa is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 93 percent are found and North Region, where 7 percent are found. Besides Cameroon this surname is found in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 13 percent are found.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kanakoa
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