Mekono Surname
Approximately 258 people bear this surname
Mekono Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 183 | 1:113,492 | 13,142 |
| Congo | 56 | 1:89,091 | 7,544 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
Mekono (110) may also be a first name.
Mekono Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mekono Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mekono is found most frequently in Cameroon. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Mekono click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekono? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 993,593rd most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 28,246,302 people. This surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Mekono reside; 94 percent reside in Central Africa and 93 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 895,203rd most frequently used given name throughout the world, borne by 110 people.
This surname is most frequent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 113,492. In Cameroon Mekono is most prevalent in: Centre Region, where 88 percent reside, Littoral Region, where 5 percent reside and South Region, where 4 percent reside. Outside of Cameroon this last name exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 22 percent reside and The Ivory Coast, where 2 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
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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 Mekono
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