Kemayah Surname
Approximately 82 people bear this surname
Kemayah Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberia | 78 | 1:56,520 | 4,977 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
Kemayah (10) may also be a first name.
Kemayah Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kemayah Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kemayah is held by more people in Liberia than any other country or territory. It may appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kemayah? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,075,631st most frequently held family name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 88,872,511 people. The surname is mostly found in Africa, where 95 percent of Kemayah reside; 95 percent reside in West Africa and 95 percent reside in Anglo-West Africa. It is also the 3,684,242nd most frequent first name throughout the world, borne by 10 people.
This surname is most frequently held in Liberia, where it is borne by 78 people, or 1 in 56,520. In Liberia Kemayah is most numerous in: Montserrado County, where 67 percent live, Lofa County, where 19 percent live and Margibi County, where 12 percent live. Excluding Liberia this last name occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 4 percent live and Australia, where 1 percent live.
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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 Kemayah
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