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 is most common in Burkina Faso. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Kangoyé. Click here for other possible spellings of Kangoye.
How Common Is The Last Name Kangoye? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 247,354th most frequent family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 4,532,056 people. Kangoye occurs mostly 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 forename globally, held by 19 people.
It is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 1,538 people, or 1 in 11,932. In Burkina Faso it is primarily concentrated in: Centre-Nord Region, where 74 percent reside, Centre Region, where 12 percent reside and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 7 percent reside. Aside from Burkina Faso this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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 Kangoye
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