Nyarumba Surname

526,921st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 615 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zimbabwe
Highest density in:
Zimbabwe

Nyarumba Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Nyarumba Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zimbabwe3601:42,8846,612
Kenya2521:183,25413,801
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Nyarumba (10) may also be a first name.

Display Statistics on:
  • Religious Adherence in:
    Kenya

Nyarumba Demographics

Nyarumba Religious Adherence
in Kenya

Sample size: 5 (2018)

Religious Adherence
in Kenya

View the most religious surnames in Kenya

Nyarumba Last Name Facts

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

Nyarumba is borne by more people in Zimbabwe than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Nyarumba? popularity and diffusion

It is the 526,921st most commonly held surname internationally, held by approximately 1 in 11,849,668 people. The last name Nyarumba occurs mostly in Africa, where 100 percent of Nyarumba live; 59 percent live in Southern Africa and 59 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Nyarumba is also the 3,684,242nd most widely held first name internationally, borne by 10 people.

This last name is most commonly held in Zimbabwe, where it is borne by 360 people, or 1 in 42,884. In Zimbabwe Nyarumba is most numerous in: Manicaland Province, where 53 percent live, Harare Province, where 27 percent live and Mashonaland East Province, where 11 percent live. Besides Zimbabwe this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Kenya, where 41 percent live and Belgium, where 0 percent live.

Nyarumba Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the surname is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Nyarumbe88161/
Nyarumwa8840/
Nyarumbo8815/
Nyarumbi889/
Nyaromba882/
Nyarombe7586/
Nyarombo751/
Njorumbaha676/
Njorombe506/
Njorombi501/

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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 Nyarumba
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