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
The last name Kankou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻜﻮ) has its highest incidence in Mauritania. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of Kankou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kankou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 594,812th most widely held family name in the world It is held by around 1 in 13,907,530 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Kankou live; 91 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 46,637th most widespread given name worldwide, borne by 14,880 people.
This last name is most frequent in Mauritania, where it is borne by 158 people, or 1 in 25,917. In Mauritania it is primarily found in: Tagant Region, where 31 percent live, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 23 percent live and Assaba Region, where 9 percent live. Beside Mauritania this surname occurs in 14 countries. It also occurs 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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