Kouessan Surname
Approximately 544 people bear this surname
Kouessan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Benin | 81 | 1:127,600 | 13,832 |
| France | 31 | 1:2,142,668 | 174,004 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kouessan (910) may also be a first name.
Kouessan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouessan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kouessan occurs in Togo more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouessan? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 577,768th most numerous family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 13,396,224 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Kouessan live; 92 percent live in West Africa and 92 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kouessan is also the 268,878th most numerous first name worldwide. It is borne by 910 people.
Kouessan is most widely held in Togo, where it is carried by 420 people, or 1 in 17,257. Beside Togo Kouessan exists in 9 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 15 percent reside and France, where 6 percent reside.
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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 Kouessan
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