Keneme Surname
Approximately 1,260 people bear this surname
Keneme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 1,150 | 1:12,678 | 422 |
| Mauritania | 44 | 1:93,065 | 5,851 |
| France | 29 | 1:2,290,439 | 180,028 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 1:388,272 | 50,829 |
| Benin | 9 | 1:1,148,400 | 50,768 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
The alternate forms: Kenemé (36), Kenémé (3) & Kénémé (21) are calculated separately.
Keneme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keneme Come From? nationality or country of origin
Keneme (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﻨﻤﻰ) occurs more in Senegal more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Kenemé, Kenémé or Kénémé. Click here for other potential spellings of Keneme.
How Common Is The Last Name Keneme? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 301,477th most commonly occurring last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 5,783,767 people. The surname Keneme is primarily found in Africa, where 96 percent of Keneme live; 95 percent live in West Africa and 95 percent live in Senegambia Africa.
It is most frequently held in Senegal, where it is borne by 1,150 people, or 1 in 12,678. In Senegal it is most frequent in: Saint Louis Region, where 40 percent are found, Matam Region, where 25 percent are found and Dakar Region, where 19 percent are found. Without taking into account Senegal it occurs in 8 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 3 percent are found and France, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Keneme Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Keneme in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﻨﻤﻰ | knmy | 65.63 |
| ﻛﻨﻢ | knm | 12.5 |
| ﻛﻨﻤﻲ | knmy | 12.5 |
| ﻛﻨﻴﻤﻰ | knymy | 9.38 |
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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 Keneme
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