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 appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouessan? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kouessan is the 577,768th most common last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 13,396,224 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Kouessan are found; 92 percent are found in West Africa and 92 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kouessan is also the 268,878th most numerous first name in the world. It is borne by 910 people.
Kouessan is most numerous in Togo, where it is held by 420 people, or 1 in 17,257. Not including Togo this surname is found in 9 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 15 percent live and France, 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 Kouessan
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