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
The surname Kouna (Arabic: كونه, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻧﻪ) is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kouna.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouna? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kouna is the 84,629th most prevalent surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 1,276,949 people. This 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 common given name world-wide It is held by 3,187 people.
The last name Kouna is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is held by 3,543 people, or 1 in 5,862. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 84 percent are found, Far North Region, where 6 percent are found and Littoral Region, where 4 percent are found. Besides Cameroon this surname exists in 30 countries. It is also common in Benin, where 8 percent are found and Gabon, where 8 percent are found.
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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