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 occurs more in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanhoun? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kanhoun is the 1,048,281st most frequently occurring surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 30,491,824 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 79 percent of Kanhoun reside; 79 percent reside in West Africa and 77 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kanhoun is also the 1,321,957th most frequent first name at a global level It is held by 56 people.
Kanhoun is most frequent in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 214 people, or 1 in 107,809. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Vallée du Bandama District, where 28 percent are found, Montagnes District, where 27 percent are found and Abidjan Autonomous District, where 21 percent are found. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast Kanhoun occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 10 percent are found and Burkina Faso, 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 Kanhoun
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