Kessai Surname
Approximately 862 people bear this surname
Kessai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 754 | 1:51,235 | 8,830 |
| France | 89 | 1:746,323 | 92,306 |
| Marshall Islands | 6 | 1:8,637 | 1,214 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Kessaï (1) are calculated separately.
Kessai (11) may also be a first name.
Kessai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kessai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kessai is carried by more people in Algeria than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Kessaï. Click here for further possible spellings of Kessai.
How Common Is The Last Name Kessai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 406,240th most commonly used surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 8,454,230 people. The last name Kessai is primarily found in Africa, where 88 percent of Kessai live; 87 percent live in North Africa and 87 percent live in Mahgreb. Kessai is also the 3,487,849th most common first name world-wide, held by 11 people.
The last name Kessai is most frequently held in Algeria, where it is borne by 754 people, or 1 in 51,235. In Algeria Kessai is mostly concentrated in: Tizi Ouzou Province, where 45 percent reside, Algiers Province, where 29 percent reside and Béjaïa Province, where 25 percent reside. Barring Algeria this surname is found in 12 countries. It also occurs in France, where 10 percent reside and The Marshall Islands, where 1 percent reside.
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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 Kessai
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