Karige Surname
Approximately 501 people bear this surname
Karige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 410 | 1:112,634 | 9,577 |
| Zimbabwe | 58 | 1:266,177 | 28,032 |
| Papua New Guinea | 17 | 1:479,630 | 60,627 |
| India | 10 | 1:76,706,538 | 639,611 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
Karige (33) may also be a first name.
Karige Demographics
Karige Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Karige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karige Come From? nationality or country of origin
Karige (Hindi: करीगे) has its highest incidence in Kenya. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Karige? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 615,220th most widely held family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 14,546,000 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 93 percent of Karige live; 82 percent live in East Africa and 82 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Karige is also the 1,807,719th most widely held given name internationally, held by 33 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is carried by 410 people, or 1 in 112,634. In Kenya it is most frequent in: Nyandarua County, where 24 percent are found, Nyeri County, where 21 percent are found and Laikipia County, where 20 percent are found. Not including Kenya this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also common in Zimbabwe, where 12 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent are found.
Karige Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Karige last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Karige Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Karige in the Hindi language | ||
| करीगे | karige | 66.67 |
| करिगे | karige | 33.33 |
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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 Karige
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