Josephia Surname

3,055,934th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 41 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Aruba

Josephia Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Josephia Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands261:649,50753,972
Israel71:1,222,51968,299
Nigeria31:59,047,586507,603
Aruba11:103,4772,586
Bolivia11:10,616,43417,077
Curaçao11:157,2471,313
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Josephia (148) may also be a first name.

Josephia Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Josephia Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Josephia is most common in The Netherlands. It may occur in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Josephia? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 3,055,934th most commonly occurring surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 177,745,022 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 63 percent of Josephia are found; 59 percent are found in Caribbean and 59 percent are found in Batavo-Caribbean. Josephia is also the 757,758th most widely held first name on earth. It is borne by 148 people.

The last name is most prevalent in The Netherlands, where it is held by 26 people, or 1 in 649,507. In The Netherlands it is primarily concentrated in: Bonaire, where 85 percent are found, Friesland, where 4 percent are found and Gelderland, where 4 percent are found. Aside from The Netherlands this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in Israel, where 17 percent are found and Nigeria, where 7 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Josephias940/
Josephea88185/
Jozephia8823/
Josephjo751/
Josepeho751/
Yusephia751/
Yosefia673/
Yousefia6315/
Jozefija632/
Youssefia5914/
Yousefiha592/
Youssefiha5614/
Yosifya5355/

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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 Josephia
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