Nkuru Surname

675,256th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 442 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
DR Congo
Highest density in:
Botswana

Nkuru Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nkuru Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
DR Congo1441:513,05340,658
Nigeria941:1,884,49767,423
Botswana611:35,8517,015
Lesotho431:47,2697,569
Burundi361:272,357409
Uganda171:2,296,42870,019
Rwanda161:710,3112,071
South Africa91:6,019,745157,966
Kenya51:9,235,98055,978
Sweden41:2,461,689157,534
Tanzania41:13,235,40384,310
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
France21:33,211,361423,184
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372

Nkuru (123) may also be a first name.

Nkuru Last Name Facts

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

The last name Nkuru is held by more people in The DR Congo than any other country/territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Nkuru? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 675,256th most commonly used surname in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 16,487,660 people. The last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Nkuru live; 33 percent live in Central Africa and 33 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. Nkuru is also the 840,349th most frequently held given name at a global level It is held by 123 people.

The surname is most frequent in The DR Congo, where it is carried by 144 people, or 1 in 513,053. Besides The DR Congo this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 21 percent live and Botswana, where 14 percent live.

Nkuru Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Nkuru surname is principally Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Nkuru earn a lot less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 38.92% less than the national average, earning R 145,152 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ngkuru9111/
Nkurup911/
Nkhuru911/
Nkourou8352/
Nkurupp833/
Nkiru80398/
Ncuru80132/
Nkoru809/
Ngkoru737/
Nkieru737/
Ngcuru734/
Ncauru734/
Nkooru731/
Nkireu551/
N'Korou505/
Ngkorou503/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Nkuru
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