Mokaya Surname
Approximately 26,545 people bear this surname
Mokaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 26,185 | 1:1,764 | 271 |
| DR Congo | 150 | 1:492,530 | 39,325 |
| United States | 76 | 1:4,769,196 | 247,034 |
| Lebanon | 54 | 1:104,390 | 6,105 |
| Israel | 19 | 1:450,402 | 34,739 |
| England | 10 | 1:5,571,806 | 158,774 |
| Congo | 9 | 1:554,344 | 12,633 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| Namibia | 4 | 1:602,350 | 12,421 |
| Canada | 4 | 1:9,211,398 | 321,528 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
Mokaya (5,672) may also be a first name.
Mokaya Demographics
Mokaya Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Mokaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Mokaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Mokaya (Russian: Мокая) is found most in Kenya. It can also appear as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Mokaya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 20,601st most frequently used surname internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 274,536 people. This last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Mokaya are found; 99 percent are found in East Africa and 61 percent are found in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 88,814th most frequently occurring first name worldwide. It is borne by 5,672 people.
This surname is most frequent in Kenya, where it is carried by 26,185 people, or 1 in 1,764. In Kenya it is primarily concentrated in: Nyamira County, where 38 percent reside, Kisii County, where 27 percent reside and Nairobi County, where 10 percent reside. Barring Kenya this last name occurs in 26 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and The United States, where 0 percent reside.
Mokaya Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those carrying the Mokaya last name is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya and Maronite (100%) in Lebanon.
In The United States those holding the Mokaya last name are 10.37% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.14% being registered with the party.
Mokaya earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 12.9% less than the national average, earning $37,583 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Mokaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mokaya in the Russian language | ||
| Мокая | mokaa | - |
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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 Mokaya
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