Karuria Surname
Approximately 59 people bear this surname
Karuria Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 57 | 1:810,174 | 31,920 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Karuria Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Karuria Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Karuria is held by more people in Kenya than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Karuria.
How Common Is The Last Name Karuria? popularity and diffusion
It is the 2,506,728th most widespread surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 123,517,727 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 97 percent of Karuria reside; 97 percent reside in East Africa and 97 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in Kenya, where it is carried by 57 people, or 1 in 810,174. In Kenya it is most numerous in: Kirinyaga County, where 75 percent are found, Muranga County, where 16 percent are found and Kiambu County, where 7 percent are found. Besides Kenya it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent are found and India, where 2 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
- 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 Karuria
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