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 surname Kensen is borne by more people in Suriname than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Kensén. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kensen? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,465,390th most frequently held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 50,258,937 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 45 percent of Kensen are found; 36 percent are found in South America and 35 percent are found in Gallo-Germanic South America. Kensen is also the 388,635th most commonly occurring given name worldwide It is held by 479 people.
The surname Kensen is most commonly used in Suriname, where it is held by 51 people, or 1 in 10,836. Not including Suriname this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also found in The Netherlands, where 34 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent reside.
Kensen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kensen has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 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
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