Kinyau Surname
Approximately 435 people bear this surname
Kinyau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 427 | 1:123,985 | 11,715 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 | 1:1,164,817 | 109,517 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kinyau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kinyau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kinyau is held by more people in Tanzania than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kinyau? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 683,026th most commonly occurring family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 16,752,979 people. The last name Kinyau occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kinyau live; 98 percent live in East Africa and 98 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
This last name is most commonly held in Tanzania, where it is held by 427 people, or 1 in 123,985. In Tanzania it is primarily found in: Dodoma Region, where 45 percent are found, Singida Region, where 27 percent are found and Morogoro Region, where 18 percent are found. Apart from Tanzania this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 2 percent are found and The United States, 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 Kinyau
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