Kaneke Surname
Approximately 399 people bear this surname
Kaneke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 184 | 1:287,726 | 22,395 |
| DR Congo | 130 | 1:568,304 | 43,658 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Germany | 9 | 1:8,945,051 | 266,530 |
| Uganda | 8 | 1:4,879,910 | 106,546 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
Kaneke (105) may also be a first name.
Kaneke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaneke Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kaneke (Marathi: कानेके) is found most frequently in Tanzania. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaneke? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kaneke is the 727,600th most widely held last name globally, held by around 1 in 18,264,526 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 82 percent of Kaneke reside; 49 percent reside in East Africa and 49 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Kaneke is also the 920,134th most frequently used first name in the world It is held by 105 people.
Kaneke is most frequently held in Tanzania, where it is held by 184 people, or 1 in 287,726. In Tanzania Kaneke is mostly concentrated in: Kigoma Region, where 98 percent are found and Morogoro Region, where 2 percent are found. Other than Tanzania Kaneke is found in 9 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 33 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 10 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kaneke Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kaneke in the Marathi language | ||
| कानेके | kaneke | 40 |
| काणेके | kaneke | 40 |
| कणाके | kanake | 20 |
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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 Kaneke
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