Kipkel Surname

773,729th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 367 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Kipkel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kipkel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya3661:126,17510,454
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426

Kipkel Last Name Facts

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

Kipkel occurs more in Kenya more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kipkel? popularity and diffusion

The surname Kipkel is the 773,729th most commonly held last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 19,857,073 people. The last name Kipkel is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kipkel live; 100 percent live in East Africa and 99 percent live in Nilo-Saharan Africa.

The last name Kipkel is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is carried by 366 people, or 1 in 126,175. In Kenya it is mostly found in: Narok County, where 98 percent live, Kericho County, where 1 percent live and Baringo County, where 0 percent live. Excluding Kenya it occurs in one country. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 0 percent live.

Kipkel Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Kipkel last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.

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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 Kipkel
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