Kapiye Surname
Approximately 1,684 people bear this surname
Kapiye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia | 1,151 | 1:2,093 | 311 |
| Malawi | 523 | 1:32,733 | 4,882 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Kapiye (23) may also be a first name.
Kapiye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kapiye Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kapiye is more commonly found in Namibia than any other country or territory. It may also be found as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kapiye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 238,146th most frequent surname internationally, borne by around 1 in 4,327,521 people. This last name is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Kapiye live; 100 percent live in Southern Africa and 100 percent live in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 2,239,265th most commonly used first name in the world, borne by 23 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Namibia, where it is carried by 1,151 people, or 1 in 2,093. In Namibia Kapiye is most frequent in: Oshikoto Region, where 42 percent reside, Ohangwena Region, where 26 percent reside and Khomas Region, where 11 percent reside. Outside of Namibia it occurs in 6 countries. It also occurs in Malawi, where 31 percent reside and Papua New Guinea, where 0 percent reside.
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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 Kapiye
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