Dosho Surname
Approximately 596 people bear this surname
Dosho Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 508 | 1:90,905 | 8,164 |
| Tanzania | 62 | 1:853,897 | 43,657 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Japan | 6 | 1:21,307,382 | 48,838 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 1:35,728,777 | 102,388 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Dosho (1,071) may also be a first name.
Dosho Demographics
Dosho Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Dosho Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dosho Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dosho (Marathi: दोशो) has its highest incidence in Kenya. It can be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Dosho? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 539,451st most widely held family name world-wide, held by around 1 in 12,227,426 people. The last name Dosho occurs mostly in Africa, where 96 percent of Dosho live; 96 percent live in East Africa and 95 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 244,349th most frequent first name on earth, held by 1,071 people.
The last name Dosho is most frequent in Kenya, where it is carried by 508 people, or 1 in 90,905. In Kenya Dosho is most frequent in: Kwale County, where 56 percent live, Mombasa County, where 42 percent live and Kilifi County, where 1 percent live. Other than Kenya Dosho is found in 11 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 10 percent live and India, where 1 percent live.
Dosho Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is principally Muslim (86%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dosho Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dosho in the Marathi language | ||
| दोशो | doso | 66.67 |
| दोशी | dosi | 33.33 |
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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 Dosho
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