Karnou Surname
Approximately 49 people bear this surname
Karnou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 39 | 1:104,996 | 6,429 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 1:6,923,023 | 143,724 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
Karnou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karnou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Karnou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺎﺭﻧﻮ) occurs more in Mauritania more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Karnou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,776,799th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 148,725,427 people. The surname Karnou is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Karnou are found; 86 percent are found in West Africa and 80 percent are found in Senegambia Africa.
This last name is most frequently held in Mauritania, where it is borne by 39 people, or 1 in 104,996. In Mauritania Karnou is mostly found in: Assaba Region, where 97 percent live and Gorgol Region, where 3 percent live. Excluding Mauritania Karnou occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 6 percent live and Algeria, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Karnou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karnou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺎﺭﻧﻮ | karnw | 66.67 |
| ﻗﺮﻧﻮ | qrnw | 33.33 |
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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 Karnou
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