Kensen Surname
Approximately 145 people bear this surname
Kensen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suriname | 51 | 1:10,836 | 2,716 |
| Netherlands | 49 | 1:344,636 | 38,971 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| United States | 11 | 1:32,950,812 | 797,015 |
| South Africa | 5 | 1:10,835,541 | 204,227 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Kensén (24) are calculated separately.
Kensen (479) may also be a first name.
Kensen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kensen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kensen occurs more in Suriname more than any other country or territory. It may occur as: Kensén. For other possible spellings of Kensen click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kensen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,465,390th most widely held family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 50,258,937 people. The last name Kensen is primarily found in The Americas, where 45 percent of Kensen reside; 36 percent reside in South America and 35 percent reside in Gallo-Germanic South America. Kensen is also the 388,635th most common first name worldwide. It is borne by 479 people.
It is most frequent in Suriname, where it is borne by 51 people, or 1 in 10,836. Apart from Suriname this last name is found in 15 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 34 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent reside.
Kensen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kensen has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kensen last name grew 157 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Kensen
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