Vakan Surname
Approximately 101 people bear this surname
Vakan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 57 | 1:404,758 | 13,812 |
| India | 27 | 1:28,409,829 | 361,298 |
| Papua New Guinea | 6 | 1:1,358,953 | 118,663 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Vakán (144) are calculated separately.
Vakan (122) may also be a first name.
Vakan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vakan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Vakan (Hindi: वाकं, Marathi: वकन, Russian: Вакан) has its highest incidence in The Ivory Coast. It may also be rendered as a variant: Vakán. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Vakan? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,839,022nd most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 72,153,920 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 57 percent of Vakan live; 57 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Mande Africa. It is also the 844,248th most commonly held given name on earth, held by 122 people.
The last name Vakan is most widely held in The Ivory Coast, where it is carried by 57 people, or 1 in 404,758. In The Ivory Coast Vakan is most frequent in: Montagnes District, where 96 percent live, Comoé District, where 2 percent live and Gôh-Djiboua District, where 2 percent live. Without taking into account The Ivory Coast this surname exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in India, where 27 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Vakan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vakan in the Marathi language | ||
| वकन | vakana | - |
| Vakan in the Hindi language | ||
| वाकं | vakam | 47.5 |
| वकां | vakam | 20 |
| वाकां | vakam | 10 |
| वकण | vakana | 7.5 |
| वकं | vakam | 5 |
| वकन | vakana | 5 |
| वाकन | vakana | 2.5 |
| वकान | vakana | 2.5 |
| Vakan in the Russian language | ||
| Вакан | vakan | - |
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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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- 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 Vakan
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