Kounou Surname
Approximately 8,758 people bear this surname
Kounou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 5,322 | 1:1,942 | 241 |
| Cameroon | 2,707 | 1:7,672 | 975 |
| Togo | 420 | 1:17,257 | 5,159 |
| Niger | 190 | 1:101,011 | 4,144 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Ivory Coast | 24 | 1:961,301 | 23,927 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Burkina Faso | 9 | 1:2,039,122 | 15,494 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| France | 5 | 1:13,284,544 | 357,392 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Germany | 4 | 1:20,126,365 | 436,245 |
| Senegal | 3 | 1:4,859,781 | 6,822 |
| Congo | 2 | 1:2,494,548 | 28,763 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Kounou (620) may also be a first name.
Kounou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kounou Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kounou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻮﻧﻮ) occurs most in Benin. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kounou? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 57,793rd most numerous family name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 832,102 people. The surname Kounou is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kounou reside; 68 percent reside in West Africa and 66 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kounou is also the 334,926th most widely held first name world-wide. It is borne by 620 people.
This last name is most numerous in Benin, where it is carried by 5,322 people, or 1 in 1,942. In Benin it is most common in: Ouémé Department, where 26 percent live, Zou Department, where 25 percent live and Atlantique Department, where 16 percent live. Apart from Benin this last name is found in 22 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 31 percent live and Togo, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kounou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kounou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻮﻧﻮ | kwnw | - |
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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 Kounou
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