Kankuru Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Kankuru Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

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Kankuru Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India461:16,675,334263,471
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784

Kankuru (15) may also be a first name.

Kankuru Last Name Facts

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

Kankuru (Oriya: କୁରୁ) is more commonly found in India than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kankuru? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 2,746,821st most frequently occurring surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 145,750,918 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 92 percent of Kankuru are found; 92 percent are found in South Asia and 92 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Kankuru is also the 2,900,335th most commonly held first name globally, held by 15 people.

Kankuru is most commonly used in India, where it is borne by 46 people, or 1 in 16,675,334. In India Kankuru is most frequent in: Andhra Pradesh, where 100 percent reside. Beside India this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Uganda, where 4 percent reside and Nigeria, where 2 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kanıkuru9340/
Kan'kuru931/
Kangkuru931/
Kaankuru931/
Kankourou881/
Cankuru8616/
Kankoru8611/
Kancuru866/
Konkuru861/
Kaisenkuru821/
Kankuroo8014/
Khamkhuru7591/
Kounkourou71134/
Camkuru7155/
Cankoru7130/
Koncuru715/
Konkoru711/
Komkuru711/
Konkorou531/
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Kankuru Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kankuru in the Oriya language
କୁରୁkuru-

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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 Kankuru
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