Kankie Surname
Approximately 28 people bear this surname
Kankie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 25 | 1:734,084 | 8,477 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Kankie (11) may also be a first name.
Kankie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kankie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kankie is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kankie? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,730,171st most commonly used surname in the world, held by approximately 1 in 260,269,497 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kankie live; 96 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kankie is also the 3,487,849th most commonly used forename throughout the world, borne by 11 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 25 people, or 1 in 734,084. In Burkina Faso Kankie is mostly found in: Centre-Ouest Region, where 96 percent live and Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 4 percent live. Aside from Burkina Faso this last name exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live and Liberia, where 4 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
- 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 Kankie
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