Kencho Surname

1,701,480th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 115 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cameroon
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Kencho Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kencho Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cameroon661:314,68329,051
Bhutan421:14,668421
Thailand41:17,659,586685,799
Ethiopia11:97,546,26229,669
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643

Kencho (6,182) may also be a first name.

Kencho Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kencho (Tibetan: དཀོན་མཆོག་) occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kencho? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kencho is the 1,701,480th most frequently held last name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 63,369,964 people. Kencho is predominantly found in Africa, where 58 percent of Kencho are found; 57 percent are found in Central Africa and 57 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 84,050th most commonly held first name globally, borne by 6,182 people.

It is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 66 people, or 1 in 314,683. In Cameroon it is most common in: Northwest Region, where 95 percent are found, West Region, where 3 percent are found and Southwest Region, where 2 percent are found. Outside of Cameroon Kencho is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 37 percent are found and Thailand, where 3 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kenchuo9223/
Kenchou9213/
Kenchho928/
Kenchot926/
Khencho926/
Keuncho921/
Kenco9155/
Kentchou862/
Kenchopp861/
Khenchou861/
Kencha83538/
Kincho83131/
Koncho8352/
Kancho8330/
Cencho833/
Kencou832/
Kenzho831/
Kentco831/
Kencoy831/
Ccencho772,249/
Kaencha77828/
Khencha77370/
Chencho77104/
Kanchoi7789/
Kinchoi7717/
Quencho7716/
Kinchoy7714/
Kenchau779/
Kinchuo778/
Gcencho774/
Khoncho773/
Kanchoy772/
Kentcha772/
Kanchoo772/
Khancho772/
Konchoh771/
Ceencho771/
Kenchha771/
Qqencho771/
Koincho771/
Konchuo771/
Keancha771/
Kemtcho771/
Kenchah771/
Kahncho771/
Kintcho771/
Khenkho771/
Khemcho771/
Koenczo771/
Kanchou771/
Kenchat771/
Khenchouch752/
Kenzo732,180/
Kenca7380/
Kinco7320/
Khaencha71227/
Kemtchou7134/
Khenkhou719/
Khonchoo714/
Kenchatt711/
Khaincho711/
Kemtchop711/
Kentchat711/
C'Cencho711/
Konhchoo711/
Khanchou711/
Khenchat711/
Cancho675,802/
Kancha672,112/
Koncha671,741/
Concho67728/
Cencio67424/
Kendzo67312/
Kincha67213/
Kienzo67172/
Cencha67130/
Kenzah67123/
Kyncha6737/
Kenzoh6730/
Kenzha6716/
Kenjoh6713/
Kenjou678/
Kincoi676/
Kenzoo674/
Cincho673/
Kentso673/
Kinjho672/
Kenjuo671/
Kinzho671/
Qoncho671/
Kuenzo671/
Kinkho671/
Qienco671/
Qincho671/
Kennzo671/
Kemhou671/
Kemhoh671/

Kencho Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kencho in the Tibetan language
དཀོན་མཆོག་könchok80.25
དཀོན་མཆོག།könchok14.93
དཀོན་ཆོགས་könchok0.77
དཀོན་མཆོ་köncho0.77
དཀོན་མཚོག་köntsok0.67
དཀོན་མཆོགkönchok0.48
དཀོན་མཆོག་།könchok0.29
དཀོན་མཆོག་་könchok0.24
དཀོན་མཚོག།köntsok0.24
དཀོན་ཆོས།könchö0.1
དཀོན་མཆོགས་könchok0.1
དཀོན་ཆོག་könchok0.1
དཀོན་མཆོ།köncho0.1
དོཀན་མཆོག་dokenchok0.1
དཀོན་ཆོགས།könchok0.1
དཀོན་བཆོག་könbachok0.05
དཀོན་མཆོད་könchö0.05
དཀོན་ཚོགས་köntsok0.05
དཀོན་ཆོག།könchok0.05
དཀོན་མཚོ།köntso0.05
མཀོན་མཆོག་makönchok0.05
དཀོན་ཚོག་köntsok0.05
དཀོན་མཚོ་köntso0.05
ནཀོན་མཆོག་nakönchok0.05
དཀོན་ཆོས་könchö0.05
དཀོན་ཚོ་köntso0.05
དཀོན་ཆཆོག་könchachok0.05
དཀོན་མཆོོག།könchok0.05
དཀན་མཆོག་kenchok0.05
དཀོན་མཆོས་könchö0.05
དཀཽན་མཆཽག།kaunchauk0.05

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kencho
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