Kantan Surname
Approximately 10,536 people bear this surname
Kantan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 9,493 | 1:80,803 | 5,451 |
| Liberia | 628 | 1:7,020 | 831 |
| United Arab Emirates | 102 | 1:89,826 | 8,037 |
| Indonesia | 78 | 1:1,695,502 | 110,645 |
| Malaysia | 72 | 1:409,642 | 21,284 |
| Thailand | 43 | 1:1,642,752 | 213,663 |
| Turkey | 34 | 1:2,288,865 | 74,619 |
| Russia | 22 | 1:6,551,048 | 261,263 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
| Latvia | 9 | 1:227,783 | 22,848 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Cambodia | 7 | 1:2,212,449 | 7,503 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Niger | 3 | 1:6,397,339 | 78,839 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kantan (12,022) may also be a first name.
Kantan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kantan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kantan (Bengali: কান্তন, Hindi: कान्तां, Marathi: कांतन, Oriya: ପଧାନ, Russian: Кантан) is held by more people in India than any other country/territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of Kantan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kantan? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 48,874th most widespread family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 691,681 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 93 percent of Kantan are found; 90 percent are found in South Asia and 90 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 54,092nd most frequent first name throughout the world, held by 12,022 people.
This last name is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 9,493 people, or 1 in 80,803. In India Kantan is mostly concentrated in: Tamil Nadu, where 98 percent live, Andhra Pradesh, where 1 percent live and Karnataka, where 0 percent live. Aside from India this last name is found in 21 countries. It is also common in Liberia, where 6 percent live and The United Arab Emirates, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kantan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kantan in the Bengali language | ||
| কান্তন | kantana | - |
| Kantan in the Marathi language | ||
| कांतन | kantana | 72.29 |
| कन्तन | kantana | 6.02 |
| कांतां | kantam | 4.82 |
| कंटन | kantana | 3.61 |
| कांतान | kantana | 3.61 |
| कँटन | kamtana | 2.41 |
| कान्तां | kantam | 2.41 |
| कान्तन | kantana | 2.41 |
| िकसन | ikasana | 1.2 |
| कंतन | kantana | 1.2 |
| Kantan in the Oriya language | ||
| ପଧାନ | padhana | 50 |
| କାନ | kana | 50 |
| Kantan in the Hindi language | ||
| कान्तां | kantam | 24.24 |
| कन्तान | kantana | 15.15 |
| कान्तन | kantana | 9.09 |
| कान्तं | kantam | 9.09 |
| कन्तां | kantam | 6.06 |
| कंतन | kantana | 6.06 |
| कन्तन | kantana | 6.06 |
| कंटन | kantana | 6.06 |
| कण्तान | kantana | 3.03 |
| कणटन | kanatana | 3.03 |
| कांतन | kantana | 3.03 |
| कन्टन | kantana | 3.03 |
| आर | ara | 3.03 |
| कांतं | kantam | 3.03 |
| Kantan in the Russian language | ||
| Кантан | kantan | - |
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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 Kantan
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