Kosome Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Kosome Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 13 | 1:627,209 | 74,307 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kosome Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kosome Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kosome occurs in Papua New Guinea more than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kosome.
How Common Is The Last Name Kosome? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kosome is the 4,908,606th most common family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. This surname occurs mostly in Oceania, where 81 percent of Kosome live; 81 percent live in Oceania Islands and 81 percent live in Papuan Oceania.
The last name Kosome is most frequent in Papua New Guinea, where it is held by 13 people, or 1 in 627,209. In Papua New Guinea Kosome is most prevalent in: Eastern Highlands, where 46 percent live, Morobe, where 46 percent live and Madang, where 8 percent live. Excluding Papua New Guinea this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 6 percent live and Kenya, where 6 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 Kosome
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