Gapaya Surname
Approximately 89 people bear this surname
Gapaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 76 | 1:273,277 | 26,204 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
Gapaya (13) may also be a first name.
Gapaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gapaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gapaya (Oriya: ଗପାୟା) is found most in Cameroon. It can also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gapaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname Gapaya is the 1,980,395th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 81,882,538 people. It is predominantly found in Africa, where 85 percent of Gapaya reside; 83 percent reside in Central Africa and 83 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Gapaya is also the 3,159,357th most widely held first name internationally, borne by 13 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in Cameroon, where it is borne by 76 people, or 1 in 273,277. In Cameroon it is most frequent in: Centre Region, where 54 percent live, Littoral Region, where 26 percent live and West Region, where 12 percent live. Not including Cameroon this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Malaysia, where 10 percent live and India, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Gapaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gapaya in the Oriya language | ||
| ଗପାୟା | gapaya | 66.67 |
| େଗାପାୟା | egapaya | 33.33 |
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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 Gapaya
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