Kameya Surname
Approximately 6,224 people bear this surname
Kameya Surname Definition:
Kameya is a surname of the Luvale tribe, meaning: a child who is born as the mother is on her way back from drawing water.
Kameya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 2,751 | 1:5,762 | 696 |
| DR Congo | 978 | 1:75,541 | 8,781 |
| Namibia | 698 | 1:3,452 | 604 |
| Japan | 645 | 1:198,208 | 8,941 |
| Tanzania | 442 | 1:119,777 | 11,421 |
| India | 358 | 1:2,142,641 | 71,944 |
| United States | 95 | 1:3,815,357 | 209,650 |
| Brazil | 78 | 1:2,744,543 | 81,769 |
| Zimbabwe | 41 | 1:376,542 | 34,729 |
| Botswana | 33 | 1:66,271 | 11,607 |
| Peru | 27 | 1:1,177,190 | 20,369 |
| Burundi | 16 | 1:612,803 | 644 |
| Russia | 13 | 1:11,086,389 | 347,183 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Uganda | 6 | 1:6,506,546 | 123,710 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 1:1,593,356 | 8,177 |
| Thailand | 3 | 1:23,546,115 | 908,588 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
Kameya (961) may also be a first name.
Kameya Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Kameya is a surname of the Luvale tribe, meaning: a child who is born as the mother is on her way back from drawing water.
Kameya is a surname of the Luvale tribe, meaning: a child who is born as the mother is on her way to tend to her soaked cassava (traditional tuber) by the riverbed.
Kameya Demographics
Average Kameya Salary in
United States
$85,892 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kameya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kameya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kameya (Bengali: কমেয়া, Oriya: କାେମୟା, Russian: Камея) is found most in Zambia. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kameya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 78,464th most widely held surname world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,170,878 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 80 percent of Kameya live; 57 percent live in Southern Africa and 57 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 260,237th most commonly used forename throughout the world, held by 961 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Zambia, where it is borne by 2,751 people, or 1 in 5,762. In Zambia it is most frequent in: Western Province, where 38 percent live, North-Western Province, where 28 percent live and Copperbelt Province, where 15 percent live. Barring Zambia this last name exists in 29 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 16 percent live and Namibia, where 11 percent live.
Kameya Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Kameya surname are 22.8% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 69.57% being registered with the political party.
The amount Kameya earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 5.24% more than the national average, earning S/. 20,401 per year; in South Africa they earn 58.58% less than the national average, earning R 98,424 per year; in United States they earn 99.06% more than the national average, earning $85,892 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.01% less than the national average, earning $44,711 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kameya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kameya in the Bengali language | ||
| কমেয়া | kameya | - |
| Kameya in the Oriya language | ||
| କାେମୟା | kaemaya | 98.25 |
| କେମୟା | kemaya | 1.4 |
| Kameya in the Russian language | ||
| Камея | kamea | - |
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Footnotes
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