Kanhoun Surname
Approximately 239 people bear this surname
Kanhoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 214 | 1:107,809 | 5,491 |
| Benin | 23 | 1:449,374 | 31,324 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
Kanhoun (56) may also be a first name.
Kanhoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanhoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanhoun is found most in The Ivory Coast. It may be found as:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanhoun? popularity and diffusion
Kanhoun is the 1,048,281st most common last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 30,491,824 people. The last name Kanhoun is mostly found in Africa, where 79 percent of Kanhoun are found; 79 percent are found in West Africa and 77 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,321,957th most frequently occurring first name at a global level, held by 56 people.
The last name Kanhoun is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 107,809. In The Ivory Coast Kanhoun is mostly found in: Vallée du Bandama District, where 28 percent live, Montagnes District, where 27 percent live and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 21 percent live. Not including The Ivory Coast it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 10 percent live and Burkina Faso, where 1 percent live.
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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 Kanhoun
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