Kaapala Surname
Approximately 47 people bear this surname
Kaapala Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 40 | 1:60,235 | 6,839 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kaapala Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kaapala Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kaapala is most common in Namibia. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kaapala? popularity and diffusion
The last name Kaapala is the 2,843,861st most widely held family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. The surname Kaapala is mostly found in Africa, where 85 percent of Kaapala live; 85 percent live in Southern Africa and 85 percent live in South Bantu Africa.
It is most frequent in Namibia, where it is carried by 40 people, or 1 in 60,235. In Namibia Kaapala is most numerous in: Zambezi Region, where 50 percent are found, Hardap Region, where 40 percent are found and Khomas Region, where 10 percent are found. Other than Namibia this surname exists in 3 countries. It is also found in India, where 11 percent are found and Papua New Guinea, where 2 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
- 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 Kaapala
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