Kinyeni Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Kinyeni Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kinyeni Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya191:2,430,52136,895
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716

Kinyeni Last Name Facts

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

Kinyeni has its highest incidence in Kenya. It may be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kinyeni? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kinyeni is the 4,427,875th most frequently used surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. The last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kinyeni are found; 100 percent are found in East Africa and 95 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.

The last name Kinyeni is most frequently occurring in Kenya, where it is borne by 19 people, or 1 in 2,430,521. In Kenya Kinyeni is most frequent in: Muranga County, where 47 percent live, Nakuru County, where 47 percent live and Kajiado County, where 5 percent live. Beside Kenya this last name occurs in one country. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 5 percent live.

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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 Kinyeni
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