Muroyi Surname
Approximately 926 people bear this surname
Muroyi Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 859 | 1:17,972 | 2,652 |
| Tanzania | 56 | 1:945,386 | 44,615 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Muroyi (63) may also be a first name.
Muroyi Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Muroyi Come From? nationality or country of origin
Muroyi is held by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Muroyi? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 384,027th most common last name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 7,869,920 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Muroyi live; 93 percent live in Southern Africa and 93 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Muroyi is also the 1,234,572nd most commonly used forename worldwide, held by 63 people.
The surname Muroyi is most numerous in Zimbabwe, where it is held by 859 people, or 1 in 17,972. In Zimbabwe it is most common in: Masvingo Province, where 27 percent live, Midlands Province, where 16 percent live and Bulawayo Province, where 14 percent live. Aside from Zimbabwe this last name is found in 9 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 6 percent live and South Africa, where 0 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 Muroyi
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