Kanjenje Surname
Approximately 250 people bear this surname
Kanjenje Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 121 | 1:437,534 | 30,427 |
| DR Congo | 62 | 1:1,191,606 | 73,277 |
| Zambia | 49 | 1:323,468 | 17,649 |
| Botswana | 17 | 1:128,643 | 18,229 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kanjenje (41) may also be a first name.
Kanjenje Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanjenje Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kanjenje is carried by more people in Tanzania than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanjenje? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,014,722nd most common surname world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 29,150,184 people. The surname Kanjenje is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kanjenje live; 49 percent live in East Africa and 49 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,590,275th most commonly occurring given name in the world It is held by 41 people.
The surname Kanjenje is most commonly occurring in Tanzania, where it is held by 121 people, or 1 in 437,534. In Tanzania Kanjenje is mostly concentrated in: Ruvuma Region, where 98 percent reside, Morogoro Region, where 1 percent reside and Njombe Region, where 1 percent reside. Beside Tanzania it occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 25 percent reside and Zambia, where 20 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 Kanjenje
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