Kiente Surname
Approximately 44 people bear this surname
Kiente Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 42 | 1:4,217,685 | 117,088 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
Kiente (124) may also be a first name.
Kiente Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kiente Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kiente is found most in Nigeria. It can occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kiente? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,944,094th most commonly held family name in the world, held by around 1 in 165,626,044 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kiente reside; 100 percent reside in West Africa and 98 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 836,439th most widely held given name globally, borne by 124 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Nigeria, where it is borne by 42 people, or 1 in 4,217,685. In Nigeria it is most frequent in: Bayelsa, where 90 percent reside, Rivers, where 7 percent reside and Delta, where 2 percent reside. Aside from Nigeria it exists in one country. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 5 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 Kiente
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