Otemba Surname
Approximately 509 people bear this surname
Otemba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 437 | 1:105,675 | 9,126 |
| Congo | 60 | 1:83,152 | 7,031 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Otemba (221) may also be a first name.
Otemba Demographics
Otemba Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Otemba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Otemba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Otemba occurs more in Kenya more than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Otemba? popularity and diffusion
The surname Otemba is the 608,234th most widespread surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 14,317,379 people. The last name is primarily found in Africa, where 99 percent of Otemba live; 86 percent live in East Africa and 59 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Otemba is also the 606,684th most frequently held first name in the world. It is borne by 221 people.
This surname is most common in Kenya, where it is carried by 437 people, or 1 in 105,675. In Kenya it is most common in: Kakamega County, where 31 percent live, Vihiga County, where 31 percent live and Nairobi County, where 19 percent live. Barring Kenya this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in The Congo, where 12 percent live and The DR Congo, where 1 percent live.
Otemba Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Otemba surname is predominantly 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 Otemba
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