Kouesse Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Kouesse Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 15 | 1:1,538,082 | 31,691 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Burkina Faso | 12 | 1:1,529,342 | 12,810 |
| Congo | 6 | 1:831,516 | 16,072 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
Kouesse (1,071) may also be a first name.
Kouesse Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouesse Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kouesse occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouesse? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kouesse is the 2,808,717th most commonly used surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 151,823,873 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 71 percent of Kouesse live; 38 percent live in Central Africa and 38 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 244,349th most prevalent first name throughout the world. It is borne by 1,071 people.
The surname Kouesse is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 15 people, or 1 in 1,538,082. In The Ivory Coast it is most frequent in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 93 percent are found and Montagnes District, where 7 percent are found. Beside The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 29 percent are found and Burkina Faso, where 25 percent are found.
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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 Kouesse
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