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 occurs in Cameroon more than any other country or territory. It may also appear as:. For other potential spellings of Mekono click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Mekono? popularity and diffusion
The surname Mekono is the 993,593rd most frequently held surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 28,246,302 people. The surname Mekono is predominantly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Mekono live; 94 percent live in Central Africa and 93 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Mekono is also the 895,203rd most widely held given name internationally, held by 110 people.
The last name is most commonly held in Cameroon, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 113,492. In Cameroon Mekono is mostly concentrated in: Centre Region, where 88 percent live, Littoral Region, where 5 percent live and South Region, where 4 percent live. Besides Cameroon it occurs in 8 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 22 percent live and The Ivory Coast, where 2 percent live.
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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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