Kenou Surname
Approximately 4,787 people bear this surname
Kenou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 2,860 | 1:3,614 | 454 |
| Togo | 1,260 | 1:5,752 | 1,143 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Cameroon | 235 | 1:88,379 | 10,660 |
| Mauritania | 15 | 1:272,991 | 12,403 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Burkina Faso | 13 | 1:1,411,700 | 12,072 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| United States | 10 | 1:36,245,893 | 832,629 |
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Kénou (2) are calculated separately.
Kenou (862) may also be a first name.
Kenou Demographics
Average Kenou Salary in
United States
$62,425 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kenou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kenou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kenou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻮ) occurs most in Benin. It can also be found as: Kénou. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kenou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 98,979th most widely held surname globally. It is borne by around 1 in 1,522,362 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kenou reside; 95 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kenou is also the 277,316th most frequently used first name world-wide It is held by 862 people.
Kenou is most commonly held in Benin, where it is held by 2,860 people, or 1 in 3,614. In Benin it is most frequent in: Kouffo Department, where 49 percent are found, Mono Department, where 26 percent are found and Zou Department, where 9 percent are found. Not including Benin Kenou occurs in 21 countries. It also occurs in Togo, where 26 percent are found and Ghana, where 7 percent are found.
Kenou Last Name Statistics demography
Kenou earn a lot more than the average income. In United States they earn 44.67% more than the national average, earning $62,425 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kenou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kenou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﻮ | knw | 69.23 |
| ﻛﻦ | kn | 30.77 |
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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 Kenou
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