Kinyemi Surname

1,101,507th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 222 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Kinyemi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kinyemi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania2091:253,30920,479
Nigeria91:19,682,529291,344
United States31:120,819,6441,331,040
England11:55,718,059489,080

Kinyemi Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kinyemi Come From? nationality or country of origin

Kinyemi is found most frequently in Tanzania. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kinyemi.

How Common Is The Last Name Kinyemi? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,101,507th most frequently held surname internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 32,826,783 people. The surname Kinyemi occurs mostly in Africa, where 98 percent of Kinyemi are found; 94 percent are found in East Africa and 94 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.

The last name Kinyemi is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is borne by 209 people, or 1 in 253,309. In Tanzania Kinyemi is mostly found in: Tanga Region, where 93 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 4 percent live and Simiyu Region, where 2 percent live. Aside from Tanzania this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also found in Nigeria, where 4 percent live and The United States, where 1 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kainyemi931/
Kinyema86270/
Kinyeme8627/
Kiniemi861/
Kainiemi8077/
Kiniema7126/
Kinimei713/
Kenyimi711/
Kinuyama67260/
Kinoyama67141/
Kinayame6741/
Kinijeme672/
Kineyama671/
Khenyema671/

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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 Kinyemi
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