Kannigan Surname

1,098,270th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 223 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Kannigan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kannigan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa2191:247,38725,203
England11:55,718,059489,080
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Kannigan Last Name Facts

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

The surname Kannigan is more frequently found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kannigan? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,098,270th most widespread surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 32,679,578 people. Kannigan is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Kannigan live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The last name Kannigan is most prevalent in South Africa, where it is borne by 219 people, or 1 in 247,387. In South Africa it is primarily concentrated in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 76 percent are found, Gauteng, where 21 percent are found and Western Cape, where 3 percent are found. Beside South Africa this last name exists in 4 countries. It is also common in England, where 0 percent are found and Malaysia, where 0 percent are found.

Kannigan Last Name Statistics demography

Kannigan earn more than double the average income. In South Africa they earn 145.21% more than the national average, earning R 582,708 per year.

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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 Kannigan
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