Nankou Surname
Approximately 182 people bear this surname
Nankou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 73 | 1:316,044 | 11,693 |
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| Benin | 30 | 1:344,520 | 26,827 |
| Cameroon | 14 | 1:1,483,505 | 83,777 |
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Mauritius | 2 | 1:646,708 | 13,517 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
Nankou (97) may also be a first name.
Nankou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nankou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nankou (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﺎﻧﻜﻮ) occurs in The Ivory Coast more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nankou? popularity and diffusion
Nankou is the 1,263,456th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 40,041,461 people. The last name Nankou is mostly found in Africa, where 36 percent of Nankou are found; 27 percent are found in West Africa and 20 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 962,660th most common first name on earth, borne by 97 people.
The surname Nankou is most commonly held in The Ivory Coast, where it is borne by 73 people, or 1 in 316,044. In The Ivory Coast Nankou is mostly concentrated in: Abidjan Autonomous District, where 92 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 8 percent live. Apart from The Ivory Coast Nankou occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in France, where 24 percent live and Benin, where 16 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nankou Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nankou in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﺎﻧﻜﻮ | nankw | - |
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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 Nankou
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