Kossebe Surname
Approximately 135 people bear this surname
Kossebe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 120 | 1:173,076 | 18,427 |
| Burkina Faso | 14 | 1:1,310,864 | 11,575 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
Kossebe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kossebe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kossebe is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kossebe? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,537,949th most commonly held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 53,981,822 people. The last name Kossebe occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kossebe live; 70 percent live in West Africa and 33 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 120 people, or 1 in 173,076. In Cameroon it is primarily concentrated in: Far North Region, where 66 percent live, North Region, where 30 percent live and Adamawa Region, where 3 percent live. Aside from Cameroon this surname is found in 2 countries. It is also found in Burkina Faso, where 10 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 1 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 Kossebe
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