Kishenyi Surname
Approximately 390 people bear this surname
Kishenyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 384 | 1:137,869 | 12,737 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kishenyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kishenyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kishenyi is most common in Tanzania. It may be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Kishenyi? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 739,868th most frequently occurring surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 18,686,015 people. The last name Kishenyi is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kishenyi are found; 99 percent are found in East Africa and 99 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The last name Kishenyi is most widely held in Tanzania, where it is borne by 384 people, or 1 in 137,869. In Tanzania it is mostly found in: Kagera Region, where 80 percent are found, Dar es Salaam Region, where 18 percent are found and Tabora Region, where 1 percent are found. Not including Tanzania this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Uganda, where 1 percent are found and The DR Congo, 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
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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 Kishenyi
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