Kanyenge Surname
Approximately 1,141 people bear this surname
Kanyenge Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 444 | 1:38,557 | 5,632 |
| DR Congo | 328 | 1:225,243 | 21,937 |
| Zambia | 305 | 1:51,967 | 4,858 |
| Namibia | 26 | 1:92,669 | 8,353 |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 1:593,778 | 45,605 |
| Tanzania | 12 | 1:4,411,801 | 54,433 |
Kanyenge (143) may also be a first name.
Kanyenge Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanyenge Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kanyenge is held by more people in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanyenge? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kanyenge is the 325,895th most commonly used surname on earth, borne by around 1 in 6,386,982 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kanyenge live; 70 percent live in Southern Africa and 70 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kanyenge is also the 772,378th most frequently occurring first name globally, held by 143 people.
The surname is most widely held in Malawi, where it is held by 444 people, or 1 in 38,557. Excluding Malawi this last name exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 29 percent live and Zambia, where 27 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 Kanyenge
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