Kerima Surname
Approximately 4,444 people bear this surname
Kerima Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 3,059 | 1:31,888 | 3,759 |
| Chad | 1,059 | 1:12,835 | 1,627 |
| Kenya | 225 | 1:205,244 | 14,810 |
| Papua New Guinea | 44 | 1:185,312 | 25,733 |
| Uganda | 21 | 1:1,859,013 | 62,128 |
| India | 14 | 1:54,790,384 | 527,769 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
The alternate forms: Kerimä (4) are calculated separately.
Kerima (3,898) may also be a first name.
Kerima Demographics
Kerima Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kerima Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kerima Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kerima (Bengali: কেরিমা, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻛﺮﻳﻤﻪ, Oriya: େକରିମା) is carried by more people in Ethiopia than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms: Kerimä. Click here for further potential spellings of Kerima.
How Common Is The Last Name Kerima? popularity and diffusion
Kerima is the 105,352nd most commonly used surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 1,639,862 people. It occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kerima live; 74 percent live in East Africa and 69 percent live in Ethiosemitic Africa. Kerima is also the 112,259th most commonly held first name on earth, held by 3,898 people.
This surname is most widely held in Ethiopia, where it is borne by 3,059 people, or 1 in 31,888. Outside of Ethiopia this surname exists in 17 countries. It is also common in Chad, where 24 percent are found and Kenya, where 5 percent are found.
Kerima Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Kerima last name is predominantly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kerima Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kerima in the Bengali language | ||
| কেরিমা | kerima | - |
| Kerima in the Oriya language | ||
| େକରିମା | ekarima | - |
| Kerima in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻛﺮﻳﻤﻪ | krymh | 79.55 |
| ﻛﺮﻳﻤﺔ | krymt | 18.18 |
| ﻛﺮﻳﻢ | krym | 2.27 |
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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 Kerima
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