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 more commonly found in Mauritania than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kankou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kankou is the 594,812th most frequently used surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 13,907,530 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 95 percent of Kankou reside; 91 percent reside in West Africa and 56 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kankou is also the 46,637th most prevalent first name throughout the world It is held by 14,880 people.
The last name Kankou is most prevalent in Mauritania, where it is held by 158 people, or 1 in 25,917. In Mauritania it is most prevalent in: Tagant Region, where 31 percent are found, Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 23 percent are found and Assaba Region, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account Mauritania it exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 29 percent are found and Benin, where 25 percent are found.
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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