Kohoun Surname
Approximately 2,633 people bear this surname
Kohoun Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1,210 | 1:15,167 | 1,179 |
| Benin | 628 | 1:16,458 | 2,219 |
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Ivory Coast | 236 | 1:97,759 | 5,096 |
| Cameroon | 30 | 1:692,302 | 50,404 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kohoun (34) may also be a first name.
Kohoun Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kohoun Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kohoun is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kohoun? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 164,675th most frequently held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 2,767,773 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kohoun reside; 97 percent reside in West Africa and 94 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,775,424th most prevalent given name throughout the world It is held by 34 people.
Kohoun is most frequent in Burkina Faso, where it is held by 1,210 people, or 1 in 15,167. In Burkina Faso Kohoun is mostly found in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 82 percent are found, Centre Region, where 9 percent are found and Hauts-Bassins Region, where 6 percent are found. Excluding Burkina Faso this surname is found in 7 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 24 percent are found and Togo, where 20 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
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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 Kohoun
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