Kouna Surname
Approximately 5,707 people bear this surname
Kouna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 3,543 | 1:5,862 | 713 |
| Benin | 484 | 1:21,355 | 2,850 |
| Gabon | 455 | 1:4,152 | 740 |
| Morocco | 409 | 1:84,294 | 14,399 |
| Niger | 201 | 1:95,483 | 3,965 |
| Ivory Coast | 187 | 1:123,376 | 6,051 |
| Greece | 139 | 1:79,711 | 13,453 |
| Iraq | 79 | 1:443,312 | 7,666 |
| Palestine | 64 | 1:71,076 | 6,019 |
| Algeria | 39 | 1:990,553 | 42,105 |
| Papua New Guinea | 28 | 1:291,204 | 39,406 |
| Mauritania | 24 | 1:170,619 | 9,051 |
| Chad | 9 | 1:1,510,244 | 5,402 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Yemen | 5 | 1:5,285,059 | 21,214 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
Kouna (3,187) may also be a first name.
Kouna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kouna Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kouna (Arabic: كونه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻧﻪ) is borne by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouna? popularity and diffusion
It is the 84,629th most commonly used family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 1,276,949 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Kouna reside; 65 percent reside in Central Africa and 64 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 127,257th most commonly used first name on earth, held by 3,187 people.
The surname Kouna is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is carried by 3,543 people, or 1 in 5,862. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 84 percent reside, Far North Region, where 6 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 4 percent reside. Other than Cameroon this surname occurs in 30 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 8 percent reside and Gabon, where 8 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kouna Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kouna in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻧﻪ | kwnh | 40.74 |
| ﺧﻮﻥ | khwn | 25.93 |
| ﻛﻮﻧﺎ | kwna | 18.52 |
| ﻛﻮﻥ | kwn | 11.11 |
| ﺧﻮﻧﻪ | khwnh | 3.7 |
| Kouna in the Arabic language | ||
| كونه | kwnh | - |
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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 Kouna
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