Kinkou Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Kinkou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 15 | 1:689,040 | 39,432 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Kinkou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kinkou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kinkou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻜﻮ, Russian: Кинкоу) is held by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kinkou? popularity and diffusion
Kinkou is the 4,649,889th most commonly occurring surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname Kinkou occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kinkou reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
The last name is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 689,040. In Benin Kinkou is most frequent in: Atlantique Department, where 80 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 7 percent reside and Plateau Department, where 7 percent reside. Besides Benin Kinkou is found in 2 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 11 percent reside and Cameroon, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kinkou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kinkou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﻜﻮ | knkw | - |
| Kinkou in the Russian language | ||
| Кинкоу | kinkou | - |
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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 Kinkou
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