Kapeya Surname
Approximately 3,181 people bear this surname
Kapeya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia | 1,496 | 1:10,595 | 1,221 |
| DR Congo | 958 | 1:77,119 | 8,957 |
| Malawi | 654 | 1:26,176 | 3,951 |
| Zimbabwe | 43 | 1:359,029 | 33,752 |
| Uganda | 23 | 1:1,697,360 | 58,907 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kapeya (311) may also be a first name.
Kapeya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kapeya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kapeya (Marathi: कापेई, Oriya: କାେପୟା) is found most in Zambia. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Kapeya.
How Common Is The Last Name Kapeya? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 140,330th most commonly used family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 2,290,961 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapeya reside; 69 percent reside in Southern Africa and 69 percent reside in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 498,315th most frequent first name at a global level, borne by 311 people.
The last name is most widely held in Zambia, where it is carried by 1,496 people, or 1 in 10,595. In Zambia it is most prevalent in: Copperbelt Province, where 28 percent live, Lusaka Province, where 21 percent live and Muchinga Province, where 21 percent live. Apart from Zambia it is found in 9 countries. It is also found in The DR Congo, where 30 percent live and Malawi, where 21 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kapeya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kapeya in the Oriya language | ||
| କାେପୟା | kaepaya | 96.97 |
| କାେପୟାର | kaepayara | 3.03 |
| Kapeya in the Marathi language | ||
| कापेई | kape'i | 66.67 |
| कापेया | kapeya | 33.33 |
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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 Kapeya
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