Kissou Surname
Approximately 1,875 people bear this surname
Kissou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,551 | 1:11,832 | 1,026 |
| Morocco | 273 | 1:126,286 | 22,036 |
| Ivory Coast | 32 | 1:720,976 | 19,991 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
Kissou (17) may also be a first name.
Kissou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kissou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kissou occurs more in Burkina Faso more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kissou? popularity and diffusion
Kissou is the 218,449th most widespread surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 3,886,691 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kissou live; 84 percent live in West Africa and 68 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 2,694,839th most frequently occurring first name in the world. It is borne by 17 people.
This last name is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is carried by 1,551 people, or 1 in 11,832. In Burkina Faso it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 35 percent live, Nord Region, where 33 percent live and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 18 percent live. Without taking into account Burkina Faso this surname is found in 12 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 15 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 2 percent live.
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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 Kissou
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