Kapengele Surname

1,079,669th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 229 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Zambia
Highest density in:
Zambia

Kapengele Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kapengele Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Zambia1391:114,0288,832
DR Congo891:830,10857,152
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716

Kapengele (28) may also be a first name.

Kapengele Last Name Facts

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

The last name Kapengele is most common in Zambia. It can be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Kapengele? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,079,669th most frequent surname on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 31,823,345 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapengele live; 61 percent live in Southern Africa and 61 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,994,417th most prevalent first name throughout the world, held by 28 people.

This surname is most commonly occurring in Zambia, where it is carried by 139 people, or 1 in 114,028. In Zambia Kapengele is primarily concentrated in: North-Western Province, where 35 percent reside, Copperbelt Province, where 34 percent reside and Central Province, where 27 percent reside. Without taking into account Zambia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 39 percent reside and Tanzania, where 0 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Khapengele951/
Kapengela89416/
Khapenjele8425/
Keapegile781/
Kapng'elio741/
Kapingili675/
Kapingila672/
Capienielli601/
Kapinili596/
Coppingle560/
Capinielli5311/

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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 Kapengele
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