Gekone Surname
Approximately 342 people bear this surname
Gekone Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 341 | 1:135,425 | 11,086 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Gekone (140) may also be a first name.
Gekone Demographics
Gekone Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Gekone Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gekone Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gekone is found most in Kenya. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Gekone click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gekone? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 814,680th most common surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 21,308,614 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Gekone live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 65 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Gekone is also the 781,395th most frequently occurring forename in the world It is held by 140 people.
Gekone is most frequent in Kenya, where it is held by 341 people, or 1 in 135,425. In Kenya it is most numerous in: Nyamira County, where 50 percent are found, Kisii County, where 33 percent are found and Nakuru County, where 14 percent are found. Apart from Kenya it exists in one country. It is also found in Tanzania, where 0 percent are found.
Gekone Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Gekone
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