Kanyemu Surname
Approximately 115 people bear this surname
Kanyemu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 66 | 1:240,150 | 14,690 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
Kanyemu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanyemu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kanyemu is held by more people in Zambia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanyemu? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kanyemu is the 1,701,480th most numerous surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 63,369,964 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kanyemu reside; 58 percent reside in Southern Africa and 58 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
Kanyemu is most frequently used in Zambia, where it is held by 66 people, or 1 in 240,150. In Zambia it is most frequent in: Southern Province, where 97 percent are found, Copperbelt Province, where 2 percent are found and Lusaka Province, where 2 percent are found. Without taking into account Zambia this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 42 percent are found and Zimbabwe, where 1 percent are found.
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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 Kanyemu
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