Kessa Surname
Approximately 2,072 people bear this surname
Kessa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 750 | 1:45,968 | 7,487 |
| Ivory Coast | 298 | 1:77,420 | 4,244 |
| Niger | 245 | 1:78,335 | 3,423 |
| Cameroon | 164 | 1:126,641 | 14,369 |
| DR Congo | 157 | 1:470,571 | 38,110 |
| Tanzania | 109 | 1:485,703 | 32,780 |
| Congo | 102 | 1:48,913 | 4,507 |
| South Africa | 57 | 1:950,486 | 60,033 |
| Estonia | 50 | 1:26,436 | 4,834 |
| Brazil | 31 | 1:6,905,624 | 162,221 |
| Benin | 19 | 1:543,979 | 34,804 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| Nigeria | 15 | 1:11,809,517 | 219,567 |
| Haiti | 7 | 1:1,526,272 | 14,436 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Algeria | 5 | 1:7,726,310 | 57,379 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Latvia | 2 | 1:1,025,023 | 41,546 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
Kessa (1,187) may also be a first name.
Kessa Demographics
Average Kessa Salary in
South Africa
R 183,696
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Kessa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kessa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kessa (Hindi: केस्सा, Russian: Кесса) is carried by more people in Morocco than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kessa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 201,262nd most commonly used surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 3,517,155 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Kessa reside; 36 percent reside in North Africa and 36 percent reside in Mahgreb. It is also the 230,167th most widely held first name in the world. It is borne by 1,187 people.
The last name Kessa is most frequent in Morocco, where it is held by 750 people, or 1 in 45,968. Beside Morocco this last name exists in 35 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 14 percent live and Niger, where 12 percent live.
Kessa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Kessa has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Kessa surname fell 29 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kessa Last Name Statistics demography
Kessa earn notably less less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 22.7% less than the national average, earning R 183,696 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kessa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kessa in the Hindi language | ||
| केस्सा | kes'sa | - |
| Kessa in the Russian language | ||
| Кесса | kessa | - |
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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
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- 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 Kessa
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