Porepore Surname

1,252,959th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 184 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Porepore Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Porepore Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya1181:391,35522,129
Papua New Guinea621:131,51218,033
Uganda41:9,759,820144,676

Porepore Last Name Facts

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

Porepore occurs in Kenya more than any other country or territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Porepore? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,252,959th most commonly used last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 39,606,228 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 66 percent of Porepore are found; 66 percent are found in East Africa and 66 percent are found in East Bantu Africa.

The last name Porepore is most widely held in Kenya, where it is carried by 118 people, or 1 in 391,355. In Kenya it is most prevalent in: Kwale County, where 100 percent live. Other than Kenya this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Papua New Guinea, where 34 percent live and Uganda, where 2 percent live.

Porepore Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Porepore surname is predominantly Muslim (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 Porepore
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