Kousse Surname
Approximately 2,651 people bear this surname
Kousse Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 2,354 | 1:7,796 | 783 |
| Benin | 182 | 1:56,789 | 7,049 |
| Ivory Coast | 94 | 1:245,439 | 9,826 |
| Nigeria | 6 | 1:29,523,793 | 355,097 |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1:4,153,814 | 129,697 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
The alternate forms: Koussé (4) are calculated separately.
Kousse (1,092) may also be a first name.
Kousse Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kousse Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kousse is more commonly found in Burkina Faso than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Koussé. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kousse? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kousse is the 163,764th most frequently occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 2,748,980 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Kousse live; 99 percent live in West Africa and 60 percent live in Mande Africa. Kousse is also the 241,504th most common first name on earth, borne by 1,092 people.
The last name Kousse is most frequently used in Burkina Faso, where it is borne by 2,354 people, or 1 in 7,796. In Burkina Faso it is most numerous in: Boucle du Mouhoun Region, where 62 percent are found, Hauts-Bassins Region, where 19 percent are found and Centre Region, where 15 percent are found. Apart from Burkina Faso Kousse occurs in 12 countries. It is also found in Benin, where 7 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
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