Kencho Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Kencho Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 66 | 1:314,683 | 29,051 |
| Bhutan | 42 | 1:14,668 | 421 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
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 surname Kencho (Tibetan: དཀོན་མཆོག་) occurs more in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Kencho.
How Common Is The Last Name Kencho? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kencho is the 1,701,480th most prevalent surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 63,369,964 people. This last name occurs mostly 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 widespread first name at a global level, held by 6,182 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is held by 66 people, or 1 in 314,683. In Cameroon Kencho is primarily found 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 it occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Bhutan, where 37 percent are found and Thailand, where 3 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kencho Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kencho in the Tibetan language | ||
| དཀོན་མཆོག་ | könchok | 80.25 |
| དཀོན་མཆོག། | könchok | 14.93 |
| དཀོན་ཆོགས་ | könchok | 0.77 |
| དཀོན་མཆོ་ | köncho | 0.77 |
| དཀོན་མཚོག་ | köntsok | 0.67 |
| དཀོན་མཆོག | könchok | 0.48 |
| དཀོན་མཆོག་། | könchok | 0.29 |
| དཀོན་མཆོག་་ | könchok | 0.24 |
| དཀོན་མཚོག། | köntsok | 0.24 |
| དཀོན་ཆོས། | könchö | 0.1 |
| དཀོན་མཆོགས་ | könchok | 0.1 |
| དཀོན་ཆོག་ | könchok | 0.1 |
| དཀོན་མཆོ། | köncho | 0.1 |
| དོཀན་མཆོག་ | dokenchok | 0.1 |
| དཀོན་ཆོགས། | könchok | 0.1 |
| དཀོན་བཆོག་ | könbachok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་མཆོད་ | könchö | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཚོགས་ | köntsok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཆོག། | könchok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་མཚོ། | köntso | 0.05 |
| མཀོན་མཆོག་ | makönchok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཚོག་ | köntsok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་མཚོ་ | köntso | 0.05 |
| ནཀོན་མཆོག་ | nakönchok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཆོས་ | könchö | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཚོ་ | köntso | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་ཆཆོག་ | könchachok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་མཆོོག། | könchok | 0.05 |
| དཀན་མཆོག་ | kenchok | 0.05 |
| དཀོན་མཆོས་ | könchö | 0.05 |
| དཀཽན་མཆཽག། | kaunchauk | 0.05 |
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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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- 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 Kencho
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