Keîta Surname
Approximately 5,629 people bear this surname
Keîta Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 5,175 | 1:2,287 | 154 |
| Mali | 452 | 1:37,542 | 1,092 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Keita (922,097), Keïta (189,781), Kéîta (101), Kéita (2,255), Kéïta (1,353) & Këita (4) are calculated separately.
Keîta Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Keîta Come From? nationality or country of origin
Keîta is held by more people in Guinea than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Keita, Keïta, Kéîta, Kéita, Kéïta or Këita. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Keîta? popularity and diffusion
The surname Keîta is the 85,681st most frequently used family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 1,294,643 people. Keîta is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Keîta are found; 100 percent are found in West Africa and 100 percent are found in Mande Africa.
The surname Keîta is most widely held in Guinea, where it is carried by 5,175 people, or 1 in 2,287. In Guinea Keîta is most common in: Faranah Region, where 99 percent reside, Conakry Region, where 1 percent reside and Kankan Region, where 0 percent reside. Beside Guinea it exists in 3 countries. It also occurs in Mali, where 8 percent reside and Mauritania, where 0 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
- 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 Keîta
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