Gapira Surname
Approximately 41 people bear this surname
Gapira Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rwanda | 16 | 1:710,311 | 2,071 |
| Indonesia | 11 | 1:12,022,654 | 410,938 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Zimbabwe | 3 | 1:5,146,080 | 115,446 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Gapira Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gapira Come From? nationality or country of origin
Gapira has its highest incidence in Rwanda. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Gapira click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Gapira? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,055,934th most widespread last name on a global scale, borne by approximately 1 in 177,745,022 people. The surname Gapira occurs predominantly in Africa, where 59 percent of Gapira live; 41 percent live in East Africa and 41 percent live in East Bantu Africa.
The surname Gapira is most prevalent in Rwanda, where it is held by 16 people, or 1 in 710,311. Other than Rwanda it exists in 6 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 27 percent live and Papua New Guinea, where 12 percent live.
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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 Gapira
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