Handema Surname
Approximately 511 people bear this surname
Handema Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 504 | 1:31,448 | 3,225 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Handema Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Handema Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Handema is found most frequently in Zambia. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Handema? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 606,498th most commonly occurring surname throughout the world, held by around 1 in 14,261,342 people. The surname Handema occurs mostly in Africa, where 99 percent of Handema reside; 99 percent reside in Southern Africa and 99 percent reside in South Bantu Africa.
The surname is most commonly used in Zambia, where it is carried by 504 people, or 1 in 31,448. In Zambia Handema is most frequent in: Southern Province, where 46 percent reside, Central Province, where 24 percent reside and Lusaka Province, where 20 percent reside. Beside Zambia this surname is found in 3 countries. It also occurs in England, where 1 percent reside and Scotland, where 0 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 Handema
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