Filisa Surname
Approximately 194 people bear this surname
Filisa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 183 | 1:93,547 | 11,397 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Filisa (674) may also be a first name.
Filisa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Filisa Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Filisa occurs most in Malawi. It can occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Filisa? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,210,518th most commonly held last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 37,564,670 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Filisa reside; 95 percent reside in Southern Africa and 95 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 319,366th most commonly used first name internationally It is held by 674 people.
It is most commonly used in Malawi, where it is borne by 183 people, or 1 in 93,547. Besides Malawi this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Nigeria, where 4 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 percent reside.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Filisa
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