Koundou Surname
Approximately 1,642 people bear this surname
Koundou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,214 | 1:17,108 | 2,350 |
| Niger | 316 | 1:60,734 | 2,873 |
| Benin | 71 | 1:145,572 | 15,253 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Guinea | 10 | 1:1,183,382 | 1,367 |
| Senegal | 6 | 1:2,429,890 | 4,996 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,196 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
Koundou (2,582) may also be a first name.
Koundou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Koundou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Koundou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻧﺪﻭ) is most common in Cameroon. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Koundou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Koundou? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 242,956th most frequently used surname internationally, held by around 1 in 4,438,213 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Koundou live; 74 percent live in Central Africa and 60 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Koundou is also the 144,818th most common forename on earth, borne by 2,582 people.
This surname is most numerous in Cameroon, where it is held by 1,214 people, or 1 in 17,108. In Cameroon Koundou is most numerous in: East Region, where 73 percent are found, Littoral Region, where 16 percent are found and Centre Region, where 8 percent are found. Besides Cameroon it occurs in 11 countries. It is also found in Niger, where 19 percent are found and Benin, where 4 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Koundou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Koundou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻧﺪﻭ | kwndw | 82.61 |
| ﻛﻨﺪﻭ | kndw | 17.39 |
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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 Koundou
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