Wandiri Surname

548,408th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 583 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Kenya
Highest density in:
Kenya

Wandiri Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Wandiri Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Kenya4791:96,4098,518
Indonesia791:1,674,040109,461
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
Uganda21:19,519,640189,114
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Iceland11:380,09011,096

Wandiri (198) may also be a first name.

Wandiri Last Name Facts

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

The surname Wandiri is held by more people in Kenya than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Wandiri? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 548,408th most frequently used last name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 12,500,079 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 86 percent of Wandiri live; 83 percent live in East Africa and 82 percent live in East Bantu Africa. Wandiri is also the 644,447th most commonly held first name world-wide. It is borne by 198 people.

Wandiri is most frequently held in Kenya, where it is carried by 479 people, or 1 in 96,409. In Kenya Wandiri is primarily concentrated in: Embu County, where 51 percent live, Kakamega County, where 28 percent live and Kiambu County, where 18 percent live. Outside of Kenya it occurs in 5 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 14 percent live and The DR Congo, where 4 percent live.

Wandiri Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is principally 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 Wandiri
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