Kapilima Surname

163,373rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,659 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Tanzania

Kapilima Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kapilima Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Tanzania2,4991:21,1852,653
Zambia1341:118,2839,069
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
England11:55,718,059489,080
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Russia11:144,123,056881,408

Kapilima (10) may also be a first name.

Kapilima Last Name Facts

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

Kapilima has its highest incidence in Tanzania. It can also be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of Kapilima.

How Common Is The Last Name Kapilima? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 163,373rd most widely held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 2,740,709 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapilima reside; 94 percent reside in East Africa and 94 percent reside in East Bantu Africa. Kapilima is also the 3,684,242nd most common first name globally It is held by 10 people.

This last name is most numerous in Tanzania, where it is carried by 2,499 people, or 1 in 21,185. In Tanzania it is primarily concentrated in: Morogoro Region, where 30 percent are found, Dar es Salaam Region, where 23 percent are found and Lindi Region, where 12 percent are found. Outside of Tanzania this last name is found in 6 countries. It is also found in Zambia, where 5 percent are found and The DR Congo, where 1 percent are found.

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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 Kapilima
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