Kankoua Surname

481,560th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 692 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Togo
Highest density in:
Togo

Kankoua Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kankoua Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Togo6301:11,5042,968
Burkina Faso601:305,8685,402
Ivory Coast21:11,535,61661,806

Kankoua (661) may also be a first name.

Kankoua Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kankoua Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Kankoua is borne by more people in Togo than any other country/territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kankoua? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kankoua is the 481,560th most common surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 10,531,136 people. The surname Kankoua is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kankoua are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 100 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kankoua is also the 322,851st most frequently used first name worldwide. It is borne by 661 people.

This surname is most frequently held in Togo, where it is borne by 630 people, or 1 in 11,504. Apart from Togo this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in Burkina Faso, where 9 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 0 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
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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 Kankoua
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