Kapesa Surname
Approximately 21,537 people bear this surname
Kapesa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 6,980 | 1:7,585 | 987 |
| DR Congo | 4,748 | 1:15,560 | 1,935 |
| Malawi | 4,339 | 1:3,945 | 541 |
| Zambia | 4,175 | 1:3,796 | 467 |
| Zimbabwe | 1,209 | 1:12,769 | 1,717 |
| Uganda | 39 | 1:1,001,007 | 43,411 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| United States | 6 | 1:60,409,822 | 1,028,827 |
| Kenya | 4 | 1:11,544,975 | 62,419 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
Kapesa (893) may also be a first name.
Kapesa Demographics
Kapesa Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Religious Adherence
in Kenya
Kapesa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kapesa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kapesa occurs in Tanzania more than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kapesa click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kapesa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 25,058th most numerous surname throughout the world It is held by approximately 1 in 338,373 people. It is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapesa live; 45 percent live in Southern Africa and 45 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kapesa is also the 271,926th most frequently used forename at a global level. It is borne by 893 people.
Kapesa is most frequent in Tanzania, where it is carried by 6,980 people, or 1 in 7,585. In Tanzania it is most numerous in: Songwe Region, where 41 percent reside, Mbeya Region, where 21 percent reside and Rukwa Region, where 13 percent reside. Without taking into account Tanzania this last name occurs in 20 countries. It is also common in The DR Congo, where 22 percent reside and Malawi, where 20 percent reside.
Kapesa Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Christian (67%) in Kenya.
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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 Kapesa
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