Kounde Surname
Approximately 3,477 people bear this surname
Kounde Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1,368 | 1:7,555 | 1,035 |
| Cameroon | 806 | 1:25,768 | 3,513 |
| Togo | 525 | 1:13,805 | 3,854 |
| Chad | 385 | 1:35,304 | 4,109 |
| Gabon | 202 | 1:9,352 | 1,744 |
| Niger | 92 | 1:208,609 | 6,974 |
| Ivory Coast | 50 | 1:461,425 | 15,070 |
| Senegal | 17 | 1:857,608 | 2,905 |
| France | 12 | 1:5,535,227 | 269,324 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
The alternate forms: Koundé (3) are calculated separately.
Kounde (226) may also be a first name.
Kounde Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kounde Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kounde (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﺪﻱ, Marathi: कोनडे) occurs in Benin more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as: Koundé. For other potential spellings of Kounde click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kounde? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 130,135th most frequently held last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 2,095,929 people. The surname Kounde occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Kounde live; 71 percent live in West Africa and 56 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 598,137th most widespread forename world-wide. It is borne by 226 people.
It is most commonly used in Benin, where it is carried by 1,368 people, or 1 in 7,555. In Benin Kounde is mostly concentrated in: Zou Department, where 31 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 26 percent reside and Collines Department, where 16 percent reside. Without taking into account Benin this last name exists in 21 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 23 percent reside and Togo, where 15 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kounde Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kounde in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﺪﻱ | kndy | - |
| Kounde in the Marathi language | ||
| कोनडे | konade | - |
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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 Kounde
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