Ikuya Surname
Approximately 1,552 people bear this surname
Ikuya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 1,368 | 1:54,006 | 6,504 |
| Uganda | 115 | 1:339,472 | 22,545 |
| Nigeria | 44 | 1:4,025,972 | 113,480 |
| Papua New Guinea | 22 | 1:370,624 | 48,900 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
Ikuya (3,131) may also be a first name.
Ikuya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ikuya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Ikuya occurs in The DR Congo more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ikuya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 254,471st most widely held family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 4,695,584 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ikuya live; 88 percent live in Central Africa and 88 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Ikuya is also the 128,673rd most frequently occurring first name in the world, held by 3,131 people.
Ikuya is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 1,368 people, or 1 in 54,006. Without taking into account The DR Congo it occurs in 6 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 7 percent are found and Nigeria, where 3 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 Ikuya
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