Kounso Surname
Approximately 135 people bear this surname
Kounso Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 107 | 1:194,103 | 20,154 |
| Benin | 23 | 1:449,374 | 31,324 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
Kounso (98) may also be a first name.
Kounso Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kounso Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kounso is held by more people in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kounso? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kounso is the 1,537,949th most commonly used surname on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 53,981,822 people. The last name Kounso is mostly found in Africa, where 96 percent of Kounso live; 81 percent live in West Africa and 44 percent live in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 956,749th most numerous first name globally. It is borne by 98 people.
Kounso is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 107 people, or 1 in 194,103. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Far North Region, where 54 percent are found, North Region, where 45 percent are found and South Region, where 1 percent are found. Aside from Cameroon Kounso occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 17 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Kounso
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