Japau Surname
Approximately 39 people bear this surname
Japau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 22 | 1:99,406 | 15,343 |
| Indonesia | 10 | 1:13,224,919 | 434,432 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
Japau (55) may also be a first name.
Japau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Japau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Japau is carried by more people in Botswana than any other country or territory. It can be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Japau? popularity and diffusion
The surname Japau is the 3,141,416th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 186,860,152 people. Japau is primarily found in Africa, where 59 percent of Japau are found; 56 percent are found in Southern Africa and 56 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. Japau is also the 1,336,256th most commonly occurring given name on earth, held by 55 people.
It is most common in Botswana, where it is carried by 22 people, or 1 in 99,406. Outside of Botswana this surname exists in 4 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 26 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 13 percent are found.
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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 Japau
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