Kangye Surname
Approximately 260 people bear this surname
Kangye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 219 | 1:178,262 | 14,925 |
| Nigeria | 23 | 1:7,701,859 | 170,290 |
| Taiwan | 9 | 1:2,604,972 | 16,335 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kangye (1,535) may also be a first name.
Kangye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kangye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kangye is found most frequently in Uganda. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Kangye click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kangye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 988,329th most frequently used surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 28,029,023 people. Kangye is predominantly found in Africa, where 94 percent of Kangye are found; 84 percent are found in East Africa and 84 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. Kangye is also the 197,958th most commonly occurring first name globally It is held by 1,535 people.
The surname Kangye is most frequently used in Uganda, where it is carried by 219 people, or 1 in 178,262. In Uganda it is most prevalent in: Rukungiri District, where 15 percent live, Isingiro District, where 14 percent live and Ntungamo District, where 11 percent live. Apart from Uganda this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 9 percent live and Taiwan, where 3 percent live.
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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 Kangye
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