Achieng

surname · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Achieng is a surname, most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • KEKenya1 in 111◐
  • UGUganda1 in 4K
  • TZTanzania1 in 42K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈21 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
71 ●

29K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 342K ◐

Norway

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Achieng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya#6342,92228K rec.—1Achieng58
US United States—412690 rec.—listedAchieng71
TZ Tanzania—20546 rec.——Achieng10
GB United Kingdom—16952 rec.——Achieng23
UG Uganda#37111520 rec.——Achieng19
DE Germany—3953 rec.——Achieng21
AU Australia—2863 rec.——Achieng18
NO Norway—16△5 rec.1 in 342K16Achieng6
NL Netherlands—147 rec.—7Achieng5
SE Sweden—1010 rec.—61Achieng7
CA Canada—99 rec.——Achieng9
ZA South Africa—915 rec.——Achieng6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swahili336K100%
  • English4721%
  • Arabic2481%
  • German721%
  • 491%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili335,557100%
English4721%
Arabic2481%
German721%
491%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Achieng is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname157 records spelled Achieng3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Uganda

    Also written Achieng’, Achieng'

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Achieng
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—61#11,908
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—44#10,029
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#23,561
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#46,470
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—16—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#34,871
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202611#2,663
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7#27,806
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20262#13,667
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#141,389
KE KenyaMzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners20221#207

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Achieng?
We estimate roughly 21 people bear Achieng (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Achieng have the most bearers?
Achieng is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled achieng.
How common is Achieng compared with other names?
In Kenya, Achieng is the 6th most common surname of 163,280 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Achieng” — the 6th most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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