Karake Surname
Approximately 6,151 people bear this surname
Karake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda | 5,581 | 1:2,036 | 486 |
| India | 323 | 1:2,374,815 | 77,074 |
| Papua New Guinea | 124 | 1:65,756 | 8,577 |
| Uganda | 28 | 1:1,394,260 | 52,673 |
| Argentina | 19 | 1:2,249,653 | 107,269 |
| Israel | 14 | 1:611,260 | 42,949 |
| Belgium | 12 | 1:958,054 | 73,966 |
| Finland | 11 | 1:499,700 | 30,478 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| England | 6 | 1:9,286,343 | 223,652 |
| Lebanon | 6 | 1:939,514 | 16,645 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 1:1,493,164 | 71,188 |
| Jordan | 2 | 1:4,421,218 | 22,351 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Karake (84) may also be a first name.
Karake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Karake (Hindi: कारके, Marathi: कारके, Russian: Караке) is found in Rwanda more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of Karake.
How Common Is The Last Name Karake? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 79,328th most common family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 1,184,774 people. The last name Karake occurs predominantly in Africa, where 91 percent of Karake live; 91 percent live in East Africa and 91 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,046,220th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 84 people.
The last name Karake is most widely held in Rwanda, where it is borne by 5,581 people, or 1 in 2,036. Outside of Rwanda this last name occurs in 26 countries. It is also found in India, where 5 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Karake Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karake in the Hindi language | ||
| कारके | karake | - |
| Karake in the Marathi language | ||
| कारके | karake | 60.37 |
| करके | karake | 19.51 |
| कराके | karake | 10.98 |
| काऱके | karake | 3.05 |
| केारके | kearake | 1.83 |
| सािरका | sairaka | 1.22 |
| काराळे | karale | 0.61 |
| िकरण | ikarana | 0.61 |
| कारहे | karahe | 0.61 |
| कराळे | karale | 0.61 |
| Karake in the Russian language | ||
| Караке | karake | - |
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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 Karake
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