Sankou Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Sankou Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 25 | 1:830,763 | 57,125 |
| Benin | 18 | 1:574,200 | 35,798 |
| France | 10 | 1:6,642,272 | 293,169 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Sankou (1,353) may also be a first name.
Sankou Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sankou Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sankou is found in Cameroon more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Sankou click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sankou? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,506,728th most frequently used family name globally It is held by around 1 in 123,517,727 people. The last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Sankou live; 41 percent live in Central Africa and 39 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Sankou is also the 213,236th most frequent first name on earth It is held by 1,353 people.
The last name is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 25 people, or 1 in 830,763. In Cameroon Sankou is most numerous in: Littoral Region, where 84 percent reside, West Region, where 8 percent reside and Adamawa Region, where 4 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Benin, where 31 percent reside and France, where 17 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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Sankou
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