Gakunju Surname
Approximately 403 people bear this surname
Gakunju Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 398 | 1:116,030 | 9,816 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Gakunju (25) may also be a first name.
Gakunju Demographics
Gakunju Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Gakunju Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gakunju Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gakunju is more frequently found in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gakunju? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 722,496th most widespread surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 18,083,240 people. Gakunju occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Gakunju are found; 99 percent are found in East Africa and 98 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Gakunju is also the 2,136,160th most widely held forename world-wide, held by 25 people.
The surname Gakunju is most numerous in Kenya, where it is borne by 398 people, or 1 in 116,030. In Kenya Gakunju is most frequent in: Kiambu County, where 28 percent reside, Nairobi County, where 25 percent reside and Embu County, where 12 percent reside. Barring Kenya this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent reside and Australia, where 0 percent reside.
Gakunju Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Gakunju last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Gakunju earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 9.71% less than the national average, earning $38,958 USD per year.
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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 Gakunju
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