Koulan Surname
Approximately 114 people bear this surname
Koulan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 59 | 1:175,180 | 17,306 |
| Ivory Coast | 41 | 1:562,713 | 17,068 |
| Niger | 8 | 1:2,399,002 | 43,750 |
| Guyana | 2 | 1:381,110 | 13,532 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Koulan (1,653) may also be a first name.
Koulan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koulan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Koulan is carried by more people in Benin than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Koulan? popularity and diffusion
The last name Koulan is the 1,710,039th most frequently held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 63,925,841 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 67 percent of Koulan live; 67 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 189,475th most widespread given name globally, held by 1,653 people.
The surname Koulan is most frequently used in Benin, where it is carried by 59 people, or 1 in 175,180. In Benin Koulan is mostly concentrated in: Ouémé Department, where 47 percent live, Zou Department, where 27 percent live and Atlantique Department, where 20 percent live. Not including Benin this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in The Ivory Coast, where 36 percent live and Niger, 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 Koulan
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