Gakire Surname
Approximately 5,606 people bear this surname
Gakire Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda | 5,581 | 1:2,036 | 486 |
| Uganda | 9 | 1:4,337,698 | 99,715 |
| Belgium | 6 | 1:1,916,107 | 103,447 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Gakire Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gakire Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gakire occurs most in Rwanda. It can appear as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gakire? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 85,981st most frequently used last name globally, held by approximately 1 in 1,299,955 people. Gakire occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gakire live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 100 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most frequently held in Rwanda, where it is borne by 5,581 people, or 1 in 2,036. Not including Rwanda it is found in 8 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 0 percent are found and Belgium, where 0 percent are found.
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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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- 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 Gakire
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