Kankaya Surname
Approximately 1,199 people bear this surname
Kankaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 1,036 | 1:75,117 | 6,939 |
| DR Congo | 130 | 1:568,304 | 43,658 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Germany | 8 | 1:10,063,182 | 283,807 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kankaya (122) may also be a first name.
Kankaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kankaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kankaya (Marathi: कनकया, Oriya: କାନ୍କାୟା, Russian: Канкая) is held by more people in Turkey than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kankaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 313,426th most frequently occurring family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 6,078,020 people. The surname Kankaya is mostly found in Asia, where 73 percent of Kankaya reside; 72 percent reside in West Asia and 72 percent reside in Anatolia and Highlands. It is also the 844,248th most commonly held given name internationally, borne by 122 people.
Kankaya is most widely held in Turkey, where it is carried by 1,036 people, or 1 in 75,117. In Turkey it is mostly found in: Gaziantep Province, where 26 percent are found, Istanbul Province, where 21 percent are found and Sanliurfa Province, where 19 percent are found. Outside of Turkey this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 11 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kankaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kankaya in the Marathi language | ||
| कनकया | kanakaya | 82.18 |
| कंकया | kankaya | 10.89 |
| कन्कया | kankaya | 1.98 |
| कंकय | kankaya | 0.99 |
| कनकैया | kanakaiya | 0.99 |
| कनकेया | kanakeya | 0.99 |
| शंकरया | sankaraya | 0.99 |
| Kankaya in the Oriya language | ||
| କାନ୍କାୟା | kankaya | 50 |
| କାନକାୟା | kanakaya | 50 |
| Kankaya in the Russian language | ||
| Канкая | kankaa | - |
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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 Kankaya
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