Obenge Surname
Approximately 343 people bear this surname
Obenge Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 220 | 1:209,909 | 15,013 |
| Tanzania | 70 | 1:756,309 | 41,721 |
| Cameroon | 26 | 1:798,810 | 55,510 |
| Nigeria | 16 | 1:11,071,422 | 210,388 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Obenge Demographics
Obenge Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Obenge Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Obenge Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Obenge is most common in Kenya. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Obenge? popularity and diffusion
Obenge is the 812,930th most commonly held last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 21,246,490 people. The surname Obenge occurs mostly in Africa, where 97 percent of Obenge reside; 85 percent reside in East Africa and 68 percent reside in East Bantu Africa.
The last name is most common in Kenya, where it is carried by 220 people, or 1 in 209,909. In Kenya it is most numerous in: Nairobi County, where 74 percent are found, Siaya County, where 23 percent are found and Homa Bay County, where 2 percent are found. Besides Kenya Obenge occurs in 9 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 20 percent are found and Cameroon, where 8 percent are found.
Obenge Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Christian (100%) in Kenya.
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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 Obenge
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