Kobou Surname
Approximately 926 people bear this surname
Kobou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 742 | 1:31,093 | 2,096 |
| Cameroon | 137 | 1:151,599 | 16,647 |
| Benin | 14 | 1:738,257 | 40,906 |
| Niger | 11 | 1:1,744,729 | 34,351 |
| France | 9 | 1:7,380,302 | 306,885 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Solomon Islands | 1 | 1:580,029 | 22,243 |
Kobou (320) may also be a first name.
Kobou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kobou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kobou is found most in The Ivory Coast. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kobou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kobou is the 384,027th most frequently occurring last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 7,869,920 people. The surname Kobou is primarily found in Africa, where 78 percent of Kobou live; 64 percent live in West Africa and 54 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 490,671st most frequent first name in the world, borne by 320 people.
The last name Kobou is most numerous in The Ivory Coast, where it is held by 742 people, or 1 in 31,093. In The Ivory Coast it is most prevalent in: Gôh-Djiboua District, where 47 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 24 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 10 percent are found. Not including The Ivory Coast it exists in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 15 percent are found and Benin, where 2 percent are found.
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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 Kobou
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