Kinju Surname
Approximately 749 people bear this surname
Kinju Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 716 | 1:178,553 | 8,455 |
| Papua New Guinea | 20 | 1:407,686 | 53,132 |
| India | 6 | 1:127,844,230 | 863,365 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
Kinju (1,195) may also be a first name.
Kinju Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kinju Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kinju (Hindi: किन्जू, Marathi: िंकजु, Oriya: କିୁ, Tibetan: ཀུན་རྒྱུ།) occurs most in Japan. It can appear as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kinju? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 452,985th most widely held last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 9,729,701 people. The last name Kinju occurs predominantly in Asia, where 97 percent of Kinju are found; 96 percent are found in East Asia and 96 percent are found in Nippono-Asia. It is also the 229,256th most common given name at a global level, borne by 1,195 people.
This last name is most frequently occurring in Japan, where it is carried by 716 people, or 1 in 178,553. In Japan it is most common in: Shimane Prefecture, where 36 percent are found, Osaka Prefecture, where 13 percent are found and Yamaguchi Prefecture, where 12 percent are found. Besides Japan this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 3 percent are found and India, where 1 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kinju Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kinju in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀུན་རྒྱུ། | küngyu | - |
| Kinju in the Marathi language | ||
| िंकजु | inkaju | 76.47 |
| िंकजू | inkaju | 23.53 |
| Kinju in the Hindi language | ||
| किन्जू | kinju | 50 |
| किंजू | kinju | 25 |
| किन्जु | kinju | 16.67 |
| किंजु | kinju | 8.33 |
| Kinju in the Oriya language | ||
| କିୁ | kiu | 50 |
| କିଂଜୁ | kinju | 50 |
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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
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- 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 Kinju
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