Kapchi Surname

4,427,875th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 20 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Cameroon
Highest density in:
Cameroon

Kapchi Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kapchi Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Cameroon171:1,221,71073,195
Iran11:76,782,524277,718
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Peru11:31,784,12364,452

Kapchi (50) may also be a first name.

Kapchi Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kapchi (Tibetan: ཀབ་ཅི།) is more frequently found in Cameroon than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kapchi? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 4,427,875th most prevalent family name globally, borne by approximately 1 in 364,377,296 people. This surname is primarily found in Africa, where 90 percent of Kapchi live; 80 percent live in Central Africa and 80 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,412,538th most widespread first name in the world. It is borne by 50 people.

The surname Kapchi is most frequently used in Cameroon, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 1,221,710. In Cameroon Kapchi is most prevalent in: Centre Region, where 76 percent live, West Region, where 12 percent live and Far North Region, where 6 percent live. Aside from Cameroon it exists in 3 countries. It is also common in Iran, where 5 percent live and Nigeria, where 5 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Kapchie92452/
Kapchai92150/
Kapchis925/
Kaptchi921/
Kapchei921/
Kcapchi921/
Kapci911,433/
Kaptchui861/
Kapche832,332/
Kabchi83275/
Capchi83133/
Kapcha8355/
Kopchi8333/
Kapczi8328/
Kepchi835/
Kapchy833/
Qapchi831/
Kaptche77142/
Ccapchi77101/
Ceapchi7773/
Kopchai7741/
Kopchyi7729/
Kapches7710/
Kapcheu773/
Khabchi772/
Kopchis771/
Kapchep771/
Kapchay771/
Kcapcha771/
Kappcha771/
Kapcher771/
Kabchai771/
Kabci7338/
Capci7325/
Kopci7312/
Kapca732/
Kapce732/
Kapcı731/
Khopchai71395/
Khopchit71283/
Ceapchii7140/
Kapchehe7119/
Kaptscha716/
Kapchyts711/
Kaptchep711/
Kapkhaia711/
Capcha6715,346/
Kopcha671,177/
Kepche6770/
Kabche6765/
Kapcay6758/
Kapcsa6756/
Kaptsi6725/
Kaptzi6722/
Capche6716/
Kapczy6713/
Kobchi678/
Kopzhi677/
Kapcza677/
Kopcie676/
Kovchi674/
Kapjai674/
Kavchy672/
Kopche672/
Copchi671/
Kabzhi671/
Qabchi671/

Kapchi Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Kapchi in the Tibetan language
ཀབ་ཅི།kabchi32.14
སྐབས་ཅི།kabchi21.43
ཀབ་ཅིག།kabchik7.14
སྐབས་ཅིག།kabchik7.14
བཀབ་ཅིག།kabchik7.14
བཀབ་ཅི།kabchi7.14
སྐབས་གཅིག་kabchik3.57
དཀརཔ་ཕྱི།karpachi3.57
སྐབས་kab3.57
སྐབ་ཅི།kabchi3.57
སྐབས་ཅིག་།kabchik3.57

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Footnotes

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kapchi
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