Kihala Surname
Approximately 438 people bear this surname
Kihala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 282 | 1:187,736 | 16,202 |
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| Uganda | 4 | 1:9,759,820 | 144,676 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
Kihala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kihala Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kihala is borne by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kihala.
How Common Is The Last Name Kihala? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 679,794th most frequent surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 16,638,233 people. The last name Kihala occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kihala live; 65 percent live in East Africa and 65 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Kihala is most frequently used in Tanzania, where it is borne by 282 people, or 1 in 187,736. In Tanzania it is most frequent in: Mbeya Region, where 45 percent are found, Tanga Region, where 37 percent are found and Kilimanjaro Region, where 17 percent are found. Beside Tanzania this surname occurs in 4 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 34 percent are found and Uganda, where 1 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 Kihala
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