Karuranga Surname

100,501st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,699 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Rwanda
Highest density in:
Rwanda

Karuranga Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Karuranga Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Rwanda4,6511:2,444586
Uganda171:2,296,42870,019
France111:6,038,429280,838
Canada71:5,263,656239,735
Tanzania31:17,647,204107,932
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
Belgium21:5,748,322130,559
Burundi11:9,804,8522,349
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543
England11:55,718,059489,080
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Karuranga Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Karuranga Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Karuranga is more commonly found in Rwanda than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Karuranga? popularity and diffusion

It is the 100,501st most widely held last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,550,872 people. The last name Karuranga occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Karuranga live; 99 percent live in East Africa and 99 percent live in East Bantu Africa.

The surname Karuranga is most widely held in Rwanda, where it is borne by 4,651 people, or 1 in 2,444. Excluding Rwanda this last name exists in 11 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 0 percent are found and France, where 0 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 Karuranga
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