Kasenye Surname

985,740th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 261 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Malawi
Highest density in:
Malawi

Kasenye Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kasenye Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Malawi1571:109,03912,664
Uganda681:574,10731,082
Zimbabwe291:532,35342,865
Tanzania61:8,823,60272,091
DR Congo11:73,879,570260,543

Kasenye Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kasenye is more commonly found in Malawi than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kasenye? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 985,740th most commonly held surname worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 27,921,632 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kasenye live; 71 percent live in Southern Africa and 71 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Malawi, where it is held by 157 people, or 1 in 109,039. Beside Malawi it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Uganda, where 26 percent reside and Zimbabwe, where 11 percent reside.

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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 Kasenye
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