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) occurs in Togo more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kenkou? popularity and diffusion
Kenkou is the 240,653rd most commonly used surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 4,384,805 people. The last name Kenkou is predominantly 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. Kenkou is also the 2,694,839th most commonly used given name world-wide, held by 17 people.
The surname Kenkou is most common in Togo, where it is carried by 1,155 people, or 1 in 6,275. Other than Togo this surname exists in 7 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 29 percent are found and Switzerland, where 1 percent are found.
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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