Kunkan Surname
Approximately 2,337 people bear this surname
Kunkan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2,176 | 1:352,512 | 19,230 |
| Thailand | 158 | 1:447,078 | 78,527 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kunkan (699) may also be a first name.
Kunkan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kunkan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kunkan (Hindi: कुनकन, Marathi: कुंकन) is found in India more than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Kunkan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kunkan? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 181,955th most prevalent last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 3,118,334 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Kunkan are found; 93 percent are found in South Asia and 93 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 312,567th most frequently held forename on earth, borne by 699 people.
This last name is most widely held in India, where it is borne by 2,176 people, or 1 in 352,512. In India Kunkan is most prevalent in: Gujarat, where 98 percent are found, Kerala, where 2 percent are found and Jammu and Kashmir, where 0 percent are found. Not including India this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 7 percent are found and Nigeria, where 0 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kunkan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kunkan in the Hindi language | ||
| कुनकन | kunakana | - |
| Kunkan in the Marathi language | ||
| कुंकन | kunkana | 50 |
| कुंकण | kunkana | 16.67 |
| कंकन | kankana | 16.67 |
| कुनकन | kunakana | 16.67 |
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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 Kunkan
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