Kambaya Surname
Approximately 1,219 people bear this surname
Kambaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 645 | 1:82,080 | 8,399 |
| DR Congo | 280 | 1:263,856 | 24,810 |
| Malawi | 157 | 1:109,039 | 12,664 |
| Zambia | 69 | 1:229,709 | 14,265 |
| Papua New Guinea | 39 | 1:209,070 | 28,870 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Zimbabwe | 9 | 1:1,715,360 | 84,476 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kambaya (57) may also be a first name.
Kambaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kambaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kambaya (Marathi: कंबया) is found most in Tanzania. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kambaya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 309,358th most frequent surname on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 5,978,299 people. The surname Kambaya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 96 percent of Kambaya live; 53 percent live in East Africa and 53 percent live in East Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,308,380th most commonly held forename in the world, borne by 57 people.
Kambaya is most widespread in Tanzania, where it is borne by 645 people, or 1 in 82,080. In Tanzania Kambaya is primarily concentrated in: Morogoro Region, where 49 percent live, Dar es Salaam Region, where 43 percent live and Kilimanjaro Region, where 5 percent live. Besides Tanzania this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 23 percent live and Malawi, where 13 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kambaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kambaya in the Marathi language | ||
| कंबया | kambaya | - |
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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 Kambaya
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