Kife Surname
Approximately 52 people bear this surname
Kife Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| Cameroon | 13 | 1:1,597,621 | 87,539 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3 | 1:8,125,123 | 158,686 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 21 | 1:2,391,366 | 115,093 |
Kife (82) may also be a first name.
Kife Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kife Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kife is found in The DR Congo more than any other country/territory. It may appear as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kife? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,689,253rd most frequently occurring family name at a global level. It is borne by around 1 in 140,145,114 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 79 percent of Kife reside; 65 percent reside in Central Africa and 65 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,060,447th most numerous first name worldwide, borne by 82 people.
This last name is most numerous in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 3,518,075. Other than The DR Congo this last name occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Cameroon, where 25 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 13 percent are found.
Kife Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Kife has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name declined 95 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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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 Kife
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