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Kenya: haplogroups

FamilyTreeDNA has 97 kits with a Y-DNA result and 24 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are E-M2 (E1b1a) — 69%, E1b1b-M35 — 12% and A1b1 — 7%. For mt that is fewer than 50, so those shares below are a rough guide only.

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0.4
Y-DNA · kits per 100,000 men
rank 115 of 123 among countries. About 28 million men (UN, 2023). A kit's country is the ancestor's homeland, not where the tester lives

FTDNA Discover holds about 67 more samples here that are not in the public tree, mostly from academic studies (estimate from the copy of 13 November 2026); this page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Mitotree, the mt tree of FTDNA Discover, has about 335 more samples from here that the public mt tree lacks: mostly academic studies, GenBank among them (copy of 11 November 2026). This page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Paternal line · Y-DNA

97 kits · 9 branches
Main branches of the Y tree. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches; sub-branches are indented. Age is how many years ago the branch's common ancestor lived (TMRCA).
E
84 · 87% 52k years
M2 (E1b1a)
67 · 69% 18k years
M191
29 · 30% 5,900 years
U175
4 of 97 8,800 years
E1b1b-M35
12 · 12% 25k years
E-M78
3 of 97 15k years
E2
3 of 97 38k years
A1b1
7 · 7% 13k years
B
3 of 97 86k years
other
3 of 97

Among the rest: L 2, T 1.

Maternal line · mtDNA

24 kits · 7 branches
Main mt-tree branches grouped by letter, sub-branches indented. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches. Age is how many years ago the branch's common foremother lived, from FTDNA data where available.
L2'3'4'5'6'7
18 · 75% (18 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 55–88%)
L2'3'4'6
12 · 50% (12 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 31–69%) 97k years
L3
7 · 29% (7 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 15–49%) 66k years
L3e'i'k'x
4 of 24 (4 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 7–36%) 53k years
L2a1
4 of 24 (4 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 7–36%) 15k years
L7a1a1a
3 of 24 (3 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 4–31%) 2,900 years
L0a
4 of 24 (4 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 7–36%) 48k years
other
2 of 24 (2 of 24, 95% confidence interval: 2–26%)

Migration paths of the characteristic branches #

Paths of the region's main characteristic branches, as modelled by FamilyTreeDNA Discover, on one calendar clock: in each year a branch stands where its ancestral line was. Grey is a stretch of path shared by several branches; the large marker is the branch itself.

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  • E-M4895 · 35%
  • Shared trunk
  • Territory: Kenya

The time scale is logarithmic: the closer to the present, the longer a year takes.

The same branches are in the tree on this page.

Kenya: Y-DNA #

Distinctive branches

Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.

  • E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a): 67 kits · 69.1% (95% confidence interval: 59–77%) (×46.4) 18k years
  • E-M191 E-M191: 29 kits · 29.9% (95% confidence interval: 22–40%) (×56.1) 5,900 years
  • E-M4895: 34 kits · 35.1% (95% confidence interval: 26–45%) (×31.1) 9,400 years
  • E-P2: 79 kits · 81.4% (95% confidence interval: 73–88%) (×11.5) 42k years
YFull

The same country on YFull #

The same country at the second company, YFull. Its samples are placed on the FTDNA tree by shared mutations, so the branches are comparable. FTDNA share on the left, YFull on the right, then the difference in percentage points. Republics and other sub-regions are taken out of the country, as at FTDNA. Starred branches are nearly empty at YFull: every test there is whole-genome and reaches the fine branches. Only YFull customers (YF number) are counted, no ancient DNA. YFull data of 2026-11-02.

Y-DNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 12 samples on YFull

mtDNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 1 sample on YFull

5%
Y-DNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.
10%
Big Y
rough share of kits with a Big Y test, a full read of the Y chromosome. It is estimated from the branches where the region's kits sit, so it is an estimate, not a count.

Ancient samples

From excavations on this territory: 52 samples by Y-DNA and 0 samples by mtDNA. The oldest: 4,500 BCE, Neolithic African.

Swahili people 29 · East African Pastoralist 13 · Neolithic East African 3 · Gumban 3 · Neolithic African 1

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Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 97 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 24 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 12 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 1 sample.

How to cite: ftdnastat, "Kenya: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/kenya/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.

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