Kenkou Surname
Approximately 1,662 people bear this surname
Kenkou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 1,155 | 1:6,275 | 1,305 |
| Mauritania | 485 | 1:8,443 | 903 |
| Switzerland | 12 | 1:684,410 | 46,196 |
| Cameroon | 6 | 1:3,461,511 | 126,814 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kenkou (17) may also be a first name.
Kenkou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kenkou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kenkou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻜﻮ) is found in Togo more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kenkou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 240,653rd most frequent surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 4,384,805 people. Kenkou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kenkou are found; 99 percent are found in West Africa and 70 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most commonly used first name globally It is held by 17 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Togo, where it is carried by 1,155 people, or 1 in 6,275. Apart from Togo this last name occurs in 7 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 29 percent live and Switzerland, where 1 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kenkou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kenkou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﻜﻮ | knkw | 84.75 |
| ﻛﻨﻚ | knk | 14.69 |
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kenkou
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