Kalayai Surname
Approximately 173 people bear this surname
Kalayai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papua New Guinea | 167 | 1:48,825 | 6,087 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
Kalayai (21) may also be a first name.
Kalayai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kalayai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kalayai occurs most in Papua New Guinea. It can occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kalayai? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,305,105th most numerous family name internationally It is held by approximately 1 in 42,124,543 people. The last name Kalayai is primarily found in Oceania, where 97 percent of Kalayai live; 97 percent live in Oceania Islands and 97 percent live in Papuan Oceania. It is also the 2,368,944th most frequently held first name in the world, borne by 21 people.
The last name is most widely held in Papua New Guinea, where it is carried by 167 people, or 1 in 48,825. In Papua New Guinea it is primarily found in: East Sepik, where 95 percent are found and Morobe, where 5 percent are found. Barring Papua New Guinea it occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent are found and Tanzania, where 1 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 Kalayai
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