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 frequently found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kouna.
How Common Is The Last Name Kouna? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 84,629th most commonly held surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,276,949 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 93 percent of Kouna are found; 65 percent are found in Central Africa and 64 percent are found in Central Bantu Africa. Kouna is also the 127,257th most common first name at a global level, borne by 3,187 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 3,543 people, or 1 in 5,862. In Cameroon Kouna is primarily found in: Centre Region, where 84 percent reside, Far North Region, where 6 percent reside and Littoral Region, where 4 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this surname is found in 30 countries. It also occurs 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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