Kourna Surname
Approximately 179 people bear this surname
Kourna Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 167 | 1:114,922 | 4,533 |
| Cameroon | 9 | 1:2,307,674 | 112,590 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kourna (92) may also be a first name.
Kourna Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kourna Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kourna is found most in Niger. It can be found as:. Click here for other possible spellings of Kourna.
How Common Is The Last Name Kourna? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,276,805th most widely held family name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 40,712,547 people. The surname Kourna is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kourna live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 94 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 992,070th most common first name on earth It is held by 92 people.
The surname is most widely held in Niger, where it is held by 167 people, or 1 in 114,922. In Niger it is mostly concentrated in: Diffa Region, where 84 percent reside, Zinder Region, where 12 percent reside and Maradi Region, where 2 percent reside. Apart from Niger this last name is found in 4 countries. It also occurs in Cameroon, where 5 percent reside and Chad, where 1 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kourna
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