Kossongo Surname
Approximately 29 people bear this surname
Kossongo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 27 | 1:679,707 | 8,167 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
Kossongo (19) may also be a first name.
Kossongo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kossongo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kossongo is held by more people in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kossongo click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kossongo? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 3,665,662nd most frequent surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 251,294,687 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kossongo live; 93 percent live in West Africa and 93 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kossongo is also the 2,523,061st most frequently held first name world-wide, held by 19 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 27 people, or 1 in 679,707. In Burkina Faso Kossongo is most frequent in: Nord Region, where 59 percent live, Centre-Est Region, where 37 percent live and Centre-Sud Region, where 4 percent live. Outside of Burkina Faso this last name is found in one country. It is also found in Cameroon, where 7 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 Kossongo
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