Kankou Surname
Approximately 524 people bear this surname
Kankou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 158 | 1:25,917 | 2,221 |
| Burkina Faso | 150 | 1:122,347 | 3,484 |
| Benin | 133 | 1:77,711 | 9,241 |
| Ivory Coast | 42 | 1:549,315 | 16,834 |
| Cameroon | 15 | 1:1,384,605 | 80,726 |
| Congo | 8 | 1:623,637 | 15,053 |
| Niger | 5 | 1:3,838,403 | 64,195 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
Kankou (14,880) may also be a first name.
Kankou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kankou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kankou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻜﻮ) is found in Mauritania more than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kankou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 594,812th most commonly held family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 13,907,530 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kankou reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 56 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 46,637th most commonly used first name world-wide It is held by 14,880 people.
It is most commonly held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 158 people, or 1 in 25,917. In Mauritania Kankou is mostly found in: Tagant Region, where 31 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 23 percent live and Assaba Region, where 9 percent live. Outside of Mauritania it is found in 14 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 29 percent live and Benin, where 25 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kankou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kankou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﻜﻮ | knkw | 71.43 |
| ﻛﺎﻧﻜﻮ | kankw | 17.14 |
| ﻛﻨﻚ | knk | 10 |
| ﻛﺎﻧﻐﻮ | kanghw | 1.43 |
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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 Kankou
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