Anakayi Surname

2,185,341st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 75 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Anakayi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Anakayi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya741:624,05328,587
India11:767,065,3821,851,717

Anakayi (52) may also be a first name.

Anakayi Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Anakayi Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Anakayi occurs most in Kenya. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Anakayi? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,185,341st most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 97,167,279 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 99 percent of Anakayi live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Anakayi is also the 1,381,723rd most common first name internationally, borne by 52 people.

This last name is most frequent in Kenya, where it is carried by 74 people, or 1 in 624,053. In Kenya Anakayi is most frequent in: Kakamega County, where 99 percent reside and Kisumu County, where 1 percent reside. Excluding Kenya it occurs in one country. It is also common in India, where 1 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 Anakayi
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