Kanayo Surname
Approximately 714 people bear this surname
Kanayo Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 486 | 1:364,491 | 19,517 |
| South Africa | 168 | 1:322,486 | 30,363 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Kenya | 13 | 1:3,552,300 | 39,474 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kanayo (3,569) may also be a first name.
Kanayo Demographics
Kanayo Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kanayo Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanayo Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanayo (Hindi: कनयो, Marathi: कनायो) is most common in Nigeria. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Kanayo.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanayo? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 470,273rd most widespread surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 10,206,647 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 94 percent of Kanayo are found; 68 percent are found in West Africa and 68 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Kanayo is also the 118,543rd most common given name in the world It is held by 3,569 people.
The last name Kanayo is most widely held in Nigeria, where it is carried by 486 people, or 1 in 364,491. In Nigeria it is most common in: Lagos, where 17 percent reside, Enugu, where 12 percent reside and Delta, where 9 percent reside. Apart from Nigeria this surname occurs in 15 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 24 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 4 percent reside.
Kanayo Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Kanayo surname is primarily Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Kanayo earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 71.87% less than the national average, earning R 66,852 per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kanayo Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kanayo in the Hindi language | ||
| कनयो | kanayo | - |
| Kanayo in the Marathi language | ||
| कनायो | kanayo | 43.48 |
| कनयो | kanayo | 13.04 |
| कन्हैया | kanhaiya | 13.04 |
| कानायो | kanayo | 8.7 |
| कानयो | kanayo | 8.7 |
| कनायु | kanayu | 4.35 |
| कनया | kanaya | 4.35 |
| कान् | kan | 4.35 |
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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 Kanayo
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