Kossa Surname
Approximately 5,345 people bear this surname
Kossa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 3,657 | 1:6,309 | 567 |
| Benin | 593 | 1:17,429 | 2,359 |
| Congo | 178 | 1:28,029 | 2,962 |
| United States | 167 | 1:2,170,413 | 136,881 |
| Tanzania | 110 | 1:481,287 | 32,644 |
| Hungary | 102 | 1:96,238 | 9,394 |
| Poland | 63 | 1:603,313 | 54,622 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Ukraine | 57 | 1:798,644 | 80,335 |
| Transnistria | 49 | 1:9,688 | 1,962 |
| Russia | 49 | 1:2,941,287 | 160,625 |
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| Brazil | 38 | 1:5,633,535 | 140,199 |
| Belarus | 21 | 1:452,431 | 44,053 |
| Nigeria | 20 | 1:8,857,138 | 186,571 |
| Cameroon | 19 | 1:1,093,109 | 67,608 |
| Niger | 15 | 1:1,279,468 | 26,841 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Malawi | 9 | 1:1,902,123 | 19,532 |
| Slovakia | 8 | 1:667,056 | 68,191 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 1:4,420,624 | 134,293 |
| Central African Republic | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 387 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1:1,187,123 | 48,973 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
The alternate forms: Kóssa (1) & Košša (57) are calculated separately.
Kossa (2,964) may also be a first name.
Kossa Demographics
Average Kossa Salary in
United States
$44,292 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kossa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kossa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kossa (Arabic: كوصا, Hindi: कोस्सा, Russian: Косса) occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as a variant: Kóssa or Košša. For other potential spellings of Kossa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kossa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 89,741st most widely held family name throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 1,363,432 people. The last name Kossa is primarily found in Africa, where 75 percent of Kossa reside; 68 percent reside in West Africa and 39 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kossa is also the 133,113th most numerous first name at a global level It is held by 2,964 people.
This surname is most commonly used in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 3,657 people, or 1 in 6,309. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 59 percent are found, Abidjan Autonomous District, where 19 percent are found and Bas-Sassandra District, where 6 percent are found. Besides The Ivory Coast it exists in 51 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 11 percent are found and The Congo, where 3 percent are found.
Kossa Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kossa has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name expanded 2,088 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kossa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Kossa last name is primarily Orthodox (50%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Kossa surname are 19.9% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 66.67% registered with the party.
Kossa earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.65% more than the national average, earning $44,292 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kossa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kossa in the Hindi language | ||
| कोस्सा | kos'sa | - |
| Kossa in the Russian language | ||
| Косса | kossa | - |
| Kossa in the Arabic language | ||
| كوصا | kwsa | - |
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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 Kossa
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