Anakuru Surname
Approximately 567 people bear this surname
Anakuru Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 553 | 1:70,595 | 7,826 |
| Nigeria | 14 | 1:12,653,054 | 227,444 |
Anakuru Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Anakuru Come From? nationality or country of origin
Anakuru is more frequently found in Uganda than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Anakuru? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 559,940th most frequently held surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 12,852,815 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Anakuru live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 97 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa.
The surname is most widely held in Uganda, where it is carried by 553 people, or 1 in 70,595. In Uganda it is mostly found in: Yumbe District, where 78 percent reside, Arua District, where 17 percent reside and Maracha District, where 3 percent reside. Excluding Uganda this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 2 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 Anakuru
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