Kounnou Surname
Approximately 1,454 people bear this surname
Kounnou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 1,349 | 1:7,662 | 1,053 |
| Cyprus | 48 | 1:18,435 | 2,076 |
| England | 37 | 1:1,505,893 | 64,828 |
| Niger | 13 | 1:1,476,309 | 30,154 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Kounnou (19) may also be a first name.
Kounnou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kounnou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kounnou is found most frequently in Benin. It may occur as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kounnou? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kounnou is the 268,397th most frequently occurring last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 5,012,067 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Kounnou reside; 94 percent reside in West Africa and 93 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kounnou is also the 2,523,061st most numerous first name at a global level, borne by 19 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Benin, where it is carried by 1,349 people, or 1 in 7,662. In Benin it is most frequent in: Ouémé Department, where 39 percent reside, Littoral Department, where 20 percent reside and Atlantique Department, where 19 percent reside. Aside from Benin this last name occurs in 8 countries. It is also found in Cyprus, where 3 percent reside and England, where 3 percent reside.
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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 Kounnou
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