Kanjau Surname
Approximately 125 people bear this surname
Kanjau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 61 | 1:133,667 | 18,337 |
| Kenya | 60 | 1:769,665 | 31,365 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
Kanjau (27) may also be a first name.
Kanjau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanjau Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kanjau is most common in Papua New Guinea. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanjau? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kanjau is the 1,612,213th most frequently used family name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 58,300,367 people. The last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 49 percent of Kanjau live; 49 percent live in Oceania Islands and 49 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,036,353rd most commonly used forename world-wide It is held by 27 people.
This last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is borne by 61 people, or 1 in 133,667. In Papua New Guinea Kanjau is mostly found in: East Sepik, where 92 percent reside and Morobe, where 8 percent reside. Apart from Papua New Guinea this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Kenya, where 48 percent reside and England, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Kanjau
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