Kigere Surname
Approximately 488 people bear this surname
Kigere Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 328 | 1:119,022 | 11,368 |
| Tanzania | 158 | 1:335,074 | 25,051 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Kigere Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kigere Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kigere is found most in Uganda. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kigere? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 627,290th most commonly used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 14,933,496 people. The surname Kigere occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kigere live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 78 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The last name Kigere is most widely held in Uganda, where it is held by 328 people, or 1 in 119,022. In Uganda it is most frequent in: Mbale District, where 32 percent are found, Wakiso District, where 16 percent are found and Kampala District, where 9 percent are found. Not including Uganda it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 32 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 0 percent are found.
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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 Kigere
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