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
The surname Kinkou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻜﻮ, Russian: Кинкоу) is found most frequently in Benin. It may also be found as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kinkou.
How Common Is The Last Name Kinkou? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 4,649,889th most widely held surname throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kinkou reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 83 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa.
This surname is most commonly held 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 are found, Littoral Department, where 7 percent are found and Plateau Department, where 7 percent are found. Barring Benin this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Mauritania, where 11 percent are found and Cameroon, where 6 percent are found.
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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