Kangoye Surname
Approximately 1,608 people bear this surname
Kangoye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,538 | 1:11,932 | 1,036 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Ivory Coast | 19 | 1:1,214,275 | 27,625 |
| Tanzania | 16 | 1:3,308,851 | 50,463 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
The alternate forms: Kangoyé (2) are calculated separately.
Kangoye (19) may also be a first name.
Kangoye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kangoye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kangoye has its highest incidence in Burkina Faso. It may be found as: Kangoyé. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kangoye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 247,354th most commonly occurring surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 4,532,056 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kangoye are found; 96 percent are found in West Africa and 90 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,523,061st most frequently held first name throughout the world, held by 19 people.
The last name Kangoye is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 1,538 people, or 1 in 11,932. In Burkina Faso it is most common in: Centre-Nord Region, where 74 percent are found, Centre Region, where 12 percent are found and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 7 percent are found. Besides Burkina Faso this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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
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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 Kangoye
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