Akinyi
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akinyi is a surname, most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 107◐
- UGUganda1 in 33K
- TZTanzania1 in 61K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7 ●
- Sources
- 64 ●
- 1 in 5.5M ◐
across 1 country
31K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #5 | 356,246 | 29K rec. | — | listed | Akinyi | 63 |
| US United States | — | 339 | 752 rec. | — | listed | Akinyi | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 205 | 46 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 21 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 141 | 57 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 63 | 61 rec. | — | 86 | Akinyi | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | 43 | 77 rec. | — | 2 | Akinyi | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | 23 | 73 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 15 | 21 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 8 |
| UG Uganda | — | 14 | 7 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8 | 9 rec. | — | 8 | Akinyi | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 8 | 21 rec. | — | — | Akinyi | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 7 | — | 1 in 5.5M | 10 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili357K100%
- English4661%
- Arabic2301%
- German661%
- Spanish511%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 356,549 | 100% |
| English | 466 | 1% |
| Arabic | 230 | 1% |
| German | 66 | 1% |
| Spanish | 51 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 86 | #9,454 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49 | #8,911 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #23,702 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,433 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 10 | #2,832 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #25,660 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #159,481 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 4 | #7,204 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #302,931 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akinyi?
- We estimate roughly 7 people bear Akinyi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Akinyi have the most bearers?
- Akinyi is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled akinyi.
- How common is Akinyi compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Akinyi is the 5th most common surname of 163,280 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
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, “Akinyi” — the 5th most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.