Kiyoya Surname
Approximately 605 people bear this surname
Kiyoya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 560 | 1:94,539 | 9,423 |
| DR Congo | 27 | 1:2,736,280 | 122,818 |
| Papua New Guinea | 15 | 1:543,581 | 66,712 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kiyoya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kiyoya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kiyoya occurs more in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kiyoya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kiyoya is the 533,524th most frequently used family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 12,045,530 people. Kiyoya occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Kiyoya are found; 93 percent are found in East Africa and 93 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.
The surname is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is held by 560 people, or 1 in 94,539. In Tanzania Kiyoya is mostly concentrated in: Kigoma Region, where 96 percent live, Tabora Region, where 2 percent live and Dar es Salaam Region, where 1 percent live. Aside from Tanzania Kiyoya is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 4 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 2 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
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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 Kiyoya
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